Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Balotelli

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

Merlin Olsen

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Merlin Olsen

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

Merlin Olsen

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

Mary Karr

It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.

Michael Gray

You can see the relief on Falcao's shoulders.

Michael Gray

I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

Michael Corbat

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Michel Salgado

When we found out Blackburn's owners wanted us to do a chicken advert for Venky's, we didn't really know what to think. I had to pretend to love it, but the truth is, one bite and my stomach was in knots.

Michel Patini

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Michel Patini

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

Michel Patini

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

Michel Patini

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

Michel Patini

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

Michel Patini

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

Michel Patini

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

Mark Duffy

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

P. G. Wodehouse

Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.

Paul Newman

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

Paul Brown

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

Matthew Fox

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

Martha Gellhorn

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Mark Harmon

If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

Marisa Miller

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

Marisa Miller

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

Paul Scholes

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.

Paul Scholes

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

Paul Scholes

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

Jurgen Klinsmann

To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team - spirit. That's the right attitude; that will bring you pleasure and fulfillment in football. A baker cannot live on bread he made yesterday, and a footballer cannot live on his last game. It's about the here and now.

Miguel Jimenez

I played very solid all round. This morning, I had a four foot putt for birdie, but I missed that one. Overall, I'm satisfied with the way I played and (it's) obviously good to be leading at this stage.

Frank Thomas

I put a lot of stress on the front foot when I hit. If I'm healthy, you're going to have a special player.