Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto Rehhagel

A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Junior Seau

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Junior Seau

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Patrick Vieira

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

John Scales

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

John Scales

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

John Pilger

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

Mark Noble

Not to win is guttering.

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.

Lisi Harrison

Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

Niall Quinn

I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.

Niall Quinn

Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

Niall Horan

A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

Neymar

I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.

Neymar

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

Joey Harrington

Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

Joey Harrington

Football is what I love, and I know I can do it, too.

Joey Harrington

What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

Joey Barton

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

Joey Barton

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr...

Joey Barton

How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it...