Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Linehan

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

Shannon Sharpe

Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.

Lesley Garrett

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lee Majors

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

Lee Majors

I started out wanting to coach football.

Larry Coker

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I'm passionate about the game of football.

Neil Lennon

As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

Marcello Lippi

To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.

Marc Trestman

Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

Sam Allardyce

Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.

Sam Allardyce

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

Sam Allardyce

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

Sam Allardyce

You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.

Sam Allardyce

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

Sam Claflin

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

Sachin Tendulkar

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Ryan Giggs

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

Ryan Giggs

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Ryan Giggs

Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.

Ryan Giggs

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

Ryan Giggs

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Ryan Giggs

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

Ryan Giggs

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Ryan Adams

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

Rodney Harrison

There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.

Rodney Atkins

The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

Roberto Mancini

In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.

Roberto Mancini

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football,

Roberto Mancini

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.