Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Powell

Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.

Lou Holtz

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

John Goodman

I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

John F. Kennedy

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

John F. Kennedy

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Jon Postel

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

P. C. Cast

A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare.

Paul Tagliabue

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

Martina Navratilova

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

Martin Compston

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

Phillip Daniels

Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.

Philip Rivers

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.

Peter Welch

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

Peter Mullan

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

Pete Doherty

It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

Pete Carroll

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

Pete Carroll

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

Pete Carroll

I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.

Pete Carroll

Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.

Phil Thompson

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

Phil Thompson

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

Peter Shilton

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

Peter Shilton

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

Questlove

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Quentin Tarantino

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Pliny the Elder

Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Mick McCarthy

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

Mick McCarthy

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

Mick McCarthy

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

Jim Otto

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

Jim Otto

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.