Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hunter S. Thompson

There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

Howard Cosell

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Ice Cube

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

He really showed all of us who were there playing football for fun why it was so important to work hard. No one worked harder than him at his success. Seeing his success made all of us who played with him play harder.

Larry Thompson

He quit working out, and he quit doing anything. He lost 15 pounds and wasn't ready to play football out there in California. Luckily, he found a way to turn it around or it would have been a waste of talent.

He put in a lot of work over the summer. He really worked to improve. Playing varsity football, he's a hard-nosed kid. He has very solid (wrestling) technique. He's very strong at 130 pounds - that's one of his key traits.

Mark Dantonio

He plays consistently. We've got to get all of our football team playing like that.

He picked up some receivers on his second and third progression, which I haven't see him do for a while. He's growing, he's doing some good things. He's not just forcing the football all over the place.

Anne McCaffrey

Grady could write a football story in 15 minutes, and it would be a good one,

Elton John

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

Elton John

He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.

Franco Harris

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

Ian Holloway

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

Ian Holloway

Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.

Ian Holloway

It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

Ian Holloway

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

Ian Holloway

In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony Pulis uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.

Ian Holloway

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Ian Holloway

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

Ian Holloway

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

Ian Holloway

This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

Ian Holloway

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

Ian Holloway

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

Ian Holloway

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

Ian Holloway

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

Ian Holloway

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

Ian Holloway

I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.

Ian Holloway

To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she's not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

Ian Mcewan

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

Ian Brown

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Ian Brown

It's Denmark 3 Denmark 0...

Ian Brown

Knight saved it with his back arm

Hugh MacDiarmid

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.