Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felix Magath

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

Evel Knievel

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

Eugene McCarthy

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Jeremy Clarkson

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

Jeff Garcia

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

Jeff Garcia

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

Goran Ivanisevic

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Haley Barbour

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Hale Irwin

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Hope Solo

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

Hope Solo

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

Ian Rush

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

Ian Rankin

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

Ian St. John

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

Ian St. John

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Ian St. John

Kenny was actually here at Melwood as a 15-year-old schoolboy. He came on trial and he went home afterwards. It was only later that Bill Shankly realised that Dalglish was here as a boy and he went mad! He said 'how did we miss him?' Kenny just had the football brain. He was born with it and you can't give that to people. He had that natural born talent.

Iain Duncan Smith

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Iain Dowie

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

Howard Wilkinson

I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.

Howard Wilkinson

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

Howard Wilkinson

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

Howard Wilkinson

You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.

Howard Wilkinson

As one door closes, another one shuts.

He took a lot of shrapnel particular to his foot where they were still working on things on it, but other than that he made a full recovery and made it back into battle.

He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

He's willing to do anything to help the university and the football team look good, and it's all honest and genuine with him.

He's a real good football coach; they won there and at Seminole and turned the program around.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back for our football team, and he showed up. That's a tough man.

He's a hard-nosed football player. We just liked everything about him.

He's an outstanding football player, and people are going to come from miles around to see him next year.

Pete Carroll

He's an extraordinary football player. He's so fast. He's big. He probably made us miss 11 tackles.

Mark Brunell

Good player. He just had a big day. You've got to give him a lot of credit. Very good athlete, very good football player.

George Best

Football is a sad game.