Football Quotes - Page 8

I said all along that God is in control.

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.