Football Quotes - Page 39

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

It was difficult in the beginning, in the middle and at the end.