Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Shilton

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

Questlove

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Quentin Tarantino

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Pliny the Elder

Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Mick McCarthy

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

Mick McCarthy

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

Mick McCarthy

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

Jim Otto

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

Jim Otto

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

Jim Otto

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

George Lucas

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Emily Ratajkowski

You can go super American and get barbecue and beer and be like, 'Whatever, I'm watching a football game.' That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Joe Bob Briggs

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Joan Collins

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Jimmy Greaves

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Jimmy Hill

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

Jimmy Hill

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

Lisa Kleypas

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.

Lisa Guerrero

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

Lisa Guerrero

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Lisa Guerrero

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Lionel Messi

IT IS NOT COINCIDENCE THAT AT BARCELONA WE HAVE LOW-KEY LIFESTYLES AND WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. WE KNOW WE ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND NOT MOVIE STARS.

Lionel Messi

OF COURSE MONEY TAKES WORRY OUT OF YOUR LIFE AND ENABLES YOU TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY - BUT IF IT WAS PLAYING PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL FOR FREE OR CHOOSE ANOTHER LIVING, THEN I WOULD CHOOSE FOOTBALL EVERY TIME.

Lionel Messi

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

Lionel Messi

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

Lionel Messi

Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

Lionel Messi

There's no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent

Lionel Messi

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

Lionel Messi

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.

Lionel Messi

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Lionel Messi

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.