Quotes About Football

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

There is nobody else out there that I would put ahead of Joe Greene. By far the best Steeler of all time.

I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.

Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

My sister, lover of the night, vampire of the Blood Coven, never before seen in anything but the color black, wants to be a pom-pom waving, football field-dancing cheerleader?

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.