Football Quotes - Page 31

Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.

Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Be a tough-minded optimist.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.

Messi is the Mozart of football.

I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.