Quotes About Football

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.

A month before the first game, the XFL blimp crash-landed into a restaurant. It was an omen for the entire season. On the coin toss for the first game (sorry, they didn't have a coin toss; they had two guys diving for the football instead), one of the players was injured.

You were first-string running back last year. What happened?" – Coach "Stone's mouth happened. It needed to be closed, and I was a little too obliging to shut it." – Nick

So what are you two doing here this early anyway? Bubba asked, changing the subject. Don't you have football practise? Nick let loose an evil laugh. It ended early. Stone cracked the coach's wee-belows with a badly thrown ball. I'm sure we'll all be running laps for hours tomorrow. But today... Coach had to go ice himself. Bubba and Mark sucked their breaths in sharply. That'll ruin his weekend. Yeah, and then some, Caleb added.

The man speaks Southern football, now shut up.

The last time I cry was when I won the champions. It was one of the best moments in my life.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.

Football was everything to me. There was the physical aspect, sure. I did pushups and sit-ups every night, even as a kid. But I also just studied the game constantly. It was my life.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

Nor did Baggio endear himself to the Juventus faithful by his loyalty to Fiorentina. In the Fiorentina-Juve match in April 1991, Juve won a penalty. Baggio refused to take it, and it was missed. He was then substituted, and on his way to the bench picked up and put on a Fiorentina scarf. Weeks of argument followed.

This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.

Milan-Roma games were especially tense. Roma fans loved to sing, to the tune of Il sole mio – 'I have only one dream/Milan in flames'. Milan's fans replied with irony: 'Milan in flames? And where will you work?

Crea spazi vuoti. Nel calcio come nella vita, nella pittura, nella musica, i vuoti e i silenzi sono importanti come i pieni. (Helenio Herrera)

su Gianni Rivera) Ma se non si correva per Gianni, per chi valeva la pena farlo?

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base — in both senses — greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.