Quotes About Football

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.

I got my qualification in accountancy, but now I prefer to concentrate on football.

I studied carpentry for three years and passed all my qualifications. If it wasn't for football then I would still be doing that. I honestly really enjoyed it.

Who's to say both English teams can't qualify and meet each other in the final?

Qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage was a big thing in Israel.

It's great to see Zizou doing so well. He was a very quiet team-mate, he didn't speak much, but he was a phenomenon on the pitch and he was learning all the time. We didn't know he was going to be a coach but he always had the qualities for it.

I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.

To play for Barcelona will help me show my best qualities to the world.

I just try to help Tottenham as best I can with my qualities.

But I think that if a club like Barcelona sign a player, it is because he has the right qualities.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.

I think I've played a lot in the Premier League and now I can bring my qualities that I've learned to Italy, and that is something I am looking forward to.

Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.

I think the football world needs to wake up and recognize that women, while the game is played by a different gender, it is exactly the same sport and the qualities involved with having to manage that is exactly the same then it would be for a men's team.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.

Japanese players have good football qualities and Urawa Red Diamonds is one of the greatest Japanese teams.

Luis Enrique has shown at Barcelona that he is a great coach with many qualities and I believe he would be good for any club, but I do not know him a lot on a personal level.

I think there are definitely players in the A-League who have quality.

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

Like I've always said, in football the most important thing is the quality of minutes not the quantity.

Every play, I'm trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don't want to be on the field anymore.