Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Hayes

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Woody Hayes

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Woody Hayes

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Woody Hayes

When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.

Woody Hayes

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

Woody Hayes

I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.

Woody Hayes

Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.

Woody Hayes

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

Woody Hayes

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Woody Hayes

We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

Walter Payton

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

Walter Payton

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

Will Poole

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

Wayne Wonder

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

Wayne Rooney

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Wayne Rooney

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

Wayne Rooney

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

Wayne Rooney

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

Wayne Rooney

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

Wayne Rooney

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Samuel Barber

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Salman Rushdie

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

Kevin J. Anderson

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Kevin Keegan

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is...

Kevin Keegan

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

Kevin Keegan

Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

Kevin Keegan

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Kevin Keegan

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

Kevin Keegan

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

Kevin Keegan

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

Kevin Kelly

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.