Football Quotes - Page 114

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner of endeavors that only really require skill, fortitude and a little daring, the qualities Pat Tillman showed on the football field. Pat's best service to his country was to remind us all what courage really looks like, and that the purpose of all good courage is love.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

He got up looking out of his earhole!

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.

I believe in being positive.

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.

It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

I don't think I'm prepared for life in the spotlight. I don't even think I'm really prepared now, but I still don't really feel like I'm in the spotlight a lot. I'm not a household name. I'm not followed around by paparazzi. I still have a very normal life. I'd love as many people to know and like my music as possible, but there's something quite lovely about being able to still go and watch your boys play football.

I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.