Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Murray

I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.

Paul Merson

Goals dictate how matches go.

Paul Merson

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

Paul Merson

I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

Paul Merson

Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

Paul Merson

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

Paul Jewell

It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?!

Paul Ince

Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they're doing interviews, which I find disrespectful. Pink boots, green boots, you name it, even tights. They'll be wearing skirts next.

Paul Ince

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

Anne McCaffrey

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

Isaiah Mustafa

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

Iker Casillas

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person

Idris Elba

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

Harry Mathews

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

Harry Redknapp

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

Harry Redknapp

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

Harry Redknapp

I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to?

Harry Redknapp

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

Harry Redknapp

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

Harry Redknapp

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.

Harry Redknapp

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

Harry S Truman

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

Keith Allen

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

Katherine Webb

As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. Its a huge deal.

Kris Kristofferson

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Kevin Pietersen

Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!

George Bell

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Absolutely, ... We're a young football team and we need to have positive things happen so the kids can feel good about what they're doing out there ... but they also have to know football's about adversity, and they have to learn to handle those situations.

Andy Reid

about three plays that were not what we needed to win the football game.

About the only good part is that there's plenty of good football games to watch on TV.

Michael Mandelbaum

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.