Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sepp Blatter

Ideally there would be 16 teams in every national football league.

I am involved with the football for a long time as it is my part of my soul. Mainly, I am a contractor.

Cam Newton

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

Cam Newton

There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

Cam Newton

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

Cam Newton

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

Cam Newton

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Burt Reynolds

In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.

Celinda Lake

Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.

Carson Palmer

I don’t have to play football for money.

Alan Davies

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Alan Curbishley

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

Al Davis

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

Al Davis

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

Al Davis

I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

Al Franken

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

Al Gore

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

Charles Kelley

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

Channing Tatum

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

Channing Tatum

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

Bobby Charlton

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

Bobby Charlton

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Bobby Charlton

I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

Bobby Charlton

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

Bobby Charlton

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Barry Ferguson

We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

Barry Levinson

When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole...

Arjen Robben

Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

Antonio Gates

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

Antonio Gates

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

We have a real tough homecoming game Friday night with a good football team.

Eamon de Valera

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Dwight Yorke

The game is not over until it is.