Football Quotes - Page 5

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been... a virgin.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

We don't want to tell our dreams. We want to show them

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.