Football Quotes - Page 22

Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

Football without fans is nothing.

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

Dance with the one who brung ya.

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well.

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.