Football Quotes - Page 159

There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

The game is in a neutral country for both teams.

At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me.

Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.

He's as quick as a hiccup.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.