Quotes About Football

As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.

1958 was my first year as a defensive backfield coach at Florida State. I remember one thing about that game: It was so cold. It was freezing.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

Some people don't like change. Some embrace it. But the way it's going - not just in football, but in society generally - it's more diverse. People want freshness.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

When I was 19 I came to play a friendly against England and I really liked how they played and how passionate the fans are.

I always want to feel happy, whether I am with my friends and family or out on the football field for Chelsea.

You give everything you have, build friendships within your team - in international football, you give everything for your country and play in a way that you hope connects with the fans.

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

I sometimes get frustrated with how important Dallas Cowboys' football is to people. It's extremely important to me, too, but football is what I do.

You're frustrated when things aren't going right. When you're out there, you have your piece of it, your view. It isn't until usually the next day when you're watching the film that you get to put all the pieces together: 'Oh, this is what happened on that play'; 'This is why I did that.' You don't totally know that game day.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

Any time you roll up a corner and you have a safety standing behind him helping out the corner, it's frustrating for any player.

Punting the ball is really frustrating to me.

I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.

I would like to thank the Jaguars organization for giving me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL.

I am finding I have to watch what I am doing otherwise I may as well be in full-time football again and, while I'm available if something interesting comes up to take me to the end of the season, I don't want a long-term commitment at this stage in my life.

I've really just enjoyed getting to focus full-time on football.

The main function of strength for a lineman is usually to move somebody.

As I always say, the fundamental thing in football is to defend as well as attack. And to attack well means that the forwards must first help to defend. That's where the work begins.

I have known Sepp Blatter, FIFA and football for a long time, and there are some fundamental values which FIFA and the ICRC share.

You're the first boy I ever met who didn't know what a linebacker is. Boy. I'm twenty-four years old and she's calling me a boy and I'm wondering do you have to be forty to be a man in America?

He poses the existential question of the modern soccer hooligan: "If football violence doesn't take place in the stadium, is it even football violence?