Football Quotes - Page 80

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.

Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

When you're younger, it's about 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.