Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Payton

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

Walter Payton

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

Will Poole

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

Wayne Wonder

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

Wayne Rooney

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Wayne Rooney

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

Wayne Rooney

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

Wayne Rooney

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

Wayne Rooney

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

Wayne Rooney

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Samuel Barber

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Salman Rushdie

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

Kevin J. Anderson

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Kevin Keegan

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is...

Kevin Keegan

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

Kevin Keegan

Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

Kevin Keegan

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Kevin Keegan

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

Kevin Keegan

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

Kevin Keegan

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

Kevin Kelly

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Rachel Stevens

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

Rahul Dravid

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Les Miles

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

Les Miles

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Les Miles

This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

Les Miles

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Les Miles

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

Leo Beenhakker

Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.