Football Quotes - Page 70

The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I don't think there's a lot of carry-over from year to year. I don't think anybody cares what you did the year before.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

Football is not a job, but my best therapy

You can always become better.

Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.

The game must have been past my bed-time.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)