Football Quotes - Page 63

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.

The principle is competing against yourself.

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.

In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

We're so concerned about being polite in society, and rightfully so, that it carries over onto a football team. But on a good football team, they are your friends, but first and foremost they have to be good teammates.

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.

Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch

Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

There's nothing I like more than football ...except for sex.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.