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Quotes About Football

The rush is there and my body tingles. Sounds funny but it's true. It's better than shafting a bird. Better than speeding. Mark's head is a mess but the bleeding has stopped. My knuckles are bruised and Rod's eyes have gone a bit mental looking. We join the crush trying to get into the ground and we can hear the constant chant of CHELSEA. This is what life's all about. Tottenham away. Love it.
~ John King
It was the simple things of that life such as going to the pictures (the cinema), playing darts at the local pub, watching the local football team playing in the park on a Saturday afternoon and having a slap-up breakfast on a Sunday morning when you did not have to race off to work, these were the things we had craved to be reunited with.
~ John Martin
On place-kicker Pete Rajecki having a bad camp with the Bucs because McKay made him nervous: ``I don't think he's got much of a future here, because I plan on going to all the games.
~ John McKay
Yet his mother always stocks the fridge like the offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles are coming for dinner.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Y así, en tales manos, España se convirtió en un páramo de luto y tristeza, empobrecida, enferma, miserable, dócil, asustada y gris, teniendo como único alivio los toros, el fútbol y la radio
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I'm starting to think that Jesus does love football.
~ Ashton Kutcher
The problem of an efficient group structure alone is enough to absorb anyone's interest. An organization of a committee of scientists or a panel of script writers is far from what it could be. But we lack control in the world at large to investigate more efficient structures. Here, on the contrary, here we begin to understand and build the Superorganism. We can construct groups of artists and scientists who will act as smoothly and efficiently as champion football teams.
~ B.F. Skinner
I have always admired the games between Celtic and Rangers. That's one of the games that you always watch when it's happening.
~ Gianfranco Zola
I come from Glasgow and being from Glasgow everyone knows about Celtic and Rangers. It is a big part of most people's lives.
~ Amy Macdonald
Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we've rattled some cages and that's been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.
~ Steve Clarke
Jelavic improved massively going to the Premier League. He was great for Rangers, but Premier League is different: faster and more physical. He is perfect for the Premier League, has everything to succeed.
~ Luka Modric
This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.
~ Johan Cruyff
I support Rangers and every time an Old Firm match comes up people will talk about it and look forward to it.
~ Amy Macdonald
I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.
~ Graeme Souness
I'm always going to be a Rangers fans and I'll always look out for their results. But if I thought the fans would have me back, then I'd always have that door open.
~ Kyle Lafferty
When I was a player back in the 80s, Rangers didn't sign Catholic players. There was an enquiry when Graeme Souness took over about me going to Rangers. At the time I was told I couldn't do that.
~ Steve Clarke
I've been around the world and it's an experience I've enjoyed. But there's no feeling like pulling on a Rangers jersey and playing in front of those fans every week.
~ Kyle Lafferty
If I could, I'd change the way I came up through the football ranks. I'd love to have had an academy life the way the boys have it. I think female footballers would be so much better for having that opportunity, and we'd be more effective because we would be better players.
~ Lucy Bronze
In Holland you go into amateur teams, come up through the ranks and are generally spotted for senior or professional football. At 16, I had made it into a men's amateur team, and was picked up professionally from there.
~ Jaap Stam
For all of the achievements and awards, to be able to retire as a Raider ranks highest among all of those.
~ Nnamdi Asomugha
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.
~ Tee Grizzley
Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
~ Bill Belichick
I rate the EPL a bit higher than the Bundesliga.
~ Andre Schurrle
If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
~ Larry Fitzgerald