Football Quotes - Page 50

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.

Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

Every dog has its day - and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark.

Knight saved it with his back arm

If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.

Is he ever going to learn?

Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets.