Football Quotes - Page 152

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

He caught that with the outside of his instep.

That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

Football is a sad game.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.

We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like into art and poetry, but we were. We weren't into football, we were into making music or being into music and painting and stuff like that. And we called this sort of little gang Lypton Village and we made up imaginary games and this is one day we'll form bands and one day we'll make movies and one day we'll do this and one day we'll do that. A lot of kids do this in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of us have become quite well known.

I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.