Football Quotes - Page 21

Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. You don't hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you're the greatest or the worst - their opinion doesn't make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

Every day is not perfect.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me.

It's cool. You can laugh about it, but at the same time you can't really get caught up in it because you're here for a job and it's to win football games. Being on this team, being with the head coach here and the quarterback we have keeps you humble. It keeps you hard working. You can laugh and giggle about stuff, but then at the same time you've got to make sure you're prepared and practicing hard still.