Football Quotes - Page 30

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

Nobody can make you a loser.

Watch the film, not the stopwatch.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

I follow the baseball team on the Internet more than I do the football team. Generally you can get a Nebraska game anywhere. Before I started doing big arenas and stuff and had a tour bus when I was just working comedy clubs way back when I would always listen to the games in my hotel room on the Internet.