Quotes About Football

Women's football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn't and they don't. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will.

Okay then, we're set" he thought. "Come and get it". The enemy, his enemy, were walking into the classic football ambush and they didn't have a fucking clue.

You see football isn't just about 90 minutes, it's about passion and, yes, if you like, about life. We men will do things under the umbrella of football fandom that we would never dream of doing in any other sphere of life, and within the pages that follow I will try and explain why.

One of the things about football fans in general is that they all think that they're the same. But they are not. This is a myth put about by people who wish that they were the same as the geezers. There are, in fact, a number of distinctive types of supporter, and although they all have a role to play, they are all very different indeed.

I'd heard of Vlad Dracul, but only the name. The kids at Cotton Maher never said much except things like "The football team's up against Vlad this Saturday. Pray for them." When I'd heard that, I'd asked the kid who'd said it what the big deal was. "Shut up," he'd explained.

I played football, I made a decision I knew right away if it was a good decision or a bad decision. If our guys caught it, that was a good decision. If the other guys caught it, that was a bad decision. In the wine business, a lot of the time, it'll be a decade before you know the true implications of decision you make.

Those first few plays of the game, you have a lot of adrenaline and excitement. It takes a little while to settle in and start playing football.

No, haven't seen him, haven't talked to him. You know, those relationships are always ... they're not always warm and fuzzy and it wasn't warm and fuzzy with Bill, but I'm glad I got a chance to play for him, particularly when I was a young player. But the end of the deal down there in Dallas, wasn't ... it wasn't super friendly.

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

I was at Barcelona for many years where I won a lot of things and achieved a lot of dreams. For these reasons it holds a special place in my life.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Football is important, but it is never more important than life.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.