Football Quotes - Page 32

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

One of biggest rules in football is you have to avoid crosses.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.

Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.