Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruud Gullit

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Ruud Gullit

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

Ruud Gullit

Politics and football don't mix.

Ruud Gullit

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

Ruud Gullit

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Ruud Gullit

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

Ruud Gullit

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruby Wax

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ron Jaworski

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

Ron Jaworski

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

Ron Jaworski

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

Roger Milla

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Roger Staubach

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Sam Snead

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

Rush Limbaugh

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Rush Limbaugh

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

Rush Limbaugh

Football is like life and I know life.

Wayne Knight

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

Tony Verna

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

Uri Geller

I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.

Urban Meyer

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

Tyrone Willingham

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.

Tyrone Willingham

It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.

Tristan MacManus

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Troy Aikman

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

Troy Aikman

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Xabi Alonso

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

Xavi

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

Xavi

I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.

Xavi

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

Xavi

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

Xavi

I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.