Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight Yorke

The Dell will continue to be a hard place to go and take points.

Dwyane Wade

I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

Courtney Love

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

Andy Partridge

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

And all the world is football shaped, It's just for me to kick in space, And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to take this all in, I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to taste the difference, 'Tween the lemons and limes, The pain and the pleasure, And the church bells softly chime.

Alastair Campbell

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

Alastair Campbell

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

Albert Camus

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Albert Camus

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Clinton Morrison

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

Danny Pudi

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

David Fincher

And I love shooting football.

David Coleman

Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

David Coleman

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

David Coleman

Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.

Don King

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

Douglas Adams

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

Cris Collinsworth

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

Cristiano Ronaldo

My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I'm sure that he watches over me from above.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

Cristiano Ronaldo

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I know who likes football likes me

Cristiano Ronaldo

I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

Cristiano Ronaldo

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

Cory Monteith

I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

Clive Anderson

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

Dylan Moran

I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.

Andrew O'Hagan

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Andrew O'Hagan

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Andrew O'Hagan

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

Andre Caldwell

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

Andre Benjamin

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.