Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rio Ferdinand

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Tiki Barber

Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.

Tiki Barber

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

Stevie Nicks

We did the opening tailgate party - I'm not a big football person - and it started to rain. I was a little sick and went back to the hotel where we were all staying. We didn't know whether Prince was going to go on or not because the rain got so bad. He had already prerecorded it just in case he couldn't go on. So I'm sitting there wrapped in blankets, with a hot water bottle and hot tea, and he goes on and it's the most magical thing I have ever seen.

Reggie Bush

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

Reggie Bush

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Reggie White

I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.

Reggie White

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Tom Hooper

I don't even like football.

Tom Hiddleston

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

Tom Hiddleston

Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.

Tommy Docherty

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Tommy Docherty

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Tommy Bowden

I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.

Tom Udall

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Thomas Jones

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

Vidal Sassoon

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Viggo Mortensen

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Victoria Beckham

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

Victor Cruz

I want to win football games.

Victor Cruz

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

Victor Cruz

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

Victor Cruz

I just want to continue to play football and be myself.

Victor Cruz

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Victor Cruz

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

Rita Rudner

Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.

Tom Landry

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

Tom Landry

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

Tom Landry

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Tom Landry

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Tom Landry

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Tom Landry

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Tom Ford

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.