Football Quotes - Page 79

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

If you look at any type of situation, I look at the positive and try to spread my light and truth. I think it helps with my outlook on life and correlates to football. But I don't think it helps me run any faster, jump any higher, or catch the ball or anything like that. It just helps me with perspective.

I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed.

Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.

The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.

A modern school where football is taught.

If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.