Football Quotes - Page 116

Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong.

Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football... I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

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.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I dont know.

In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!

I don’t have to play football for money.