Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Dickerson

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

Eric Dickerson

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Eric Dickerson

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

Eric Dickerson

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

Emmanuel Petit

I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.

Emmanuel Petit

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

Emmanuel Petit

Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.

Emmanuel Petit

Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

Emmanuel Petit

It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.

Emmanuel Jal

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuelle Beart

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Ludivine Sagnier

In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

Louise Rennison

What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' " Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.

Lou Holtz

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Lou Holtz

Football coaches don't have real problems.

Lou Holtz

No, but you can see it from here.

Lou Holtz

If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

Lou Holtz

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Lou Holtz

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

Lou Holtz

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

Lou Holtz

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

Gabrielle Union

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

Frank Leahy

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

Frank Leahy

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

Frank Lampard

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

Frank Lampard

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

Frank Lampard

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

Frank Lampard

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

Frank Lampard

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

Henrik Larsson

Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the Premier League and in the whole of Europe. The things I have seen him do since I have been in Manchester have been incredible, amazing. It is just like a total show in training and even in the matches. This kid will one day arrive at the very top in the world of football - if he isn't there already - because he makes the most difficult plays look easy.

Herschel Walker

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.