Football Quotes - Page 119

I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

All I have to do is play football now.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Gentleman, this is a football.

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Gentlemen, this is the football.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

I want to win football games.

I just want to continue to play football and be myself.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

As a man and as a sports figure, you have to set limits and set boundaries on what can and cannot happen. Once you do that, your family will start to respect you. 'OK, I get it, he's all about football and handling his business,' and that's what I've done. In the past, when I was a young man - a younger man - it was hard for me to say no. Since I'm older, wiser, I know how to handle people, know how to say no, know when something is right and something wrong. I use proper judgment.

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.