Quotes About Football

Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

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.

Apparently the Germans had a database of 13,000 kicks.

Experience as a player can help you just in one situation: I can understand what the players are thinking. But the job is different. You have to study to be a manager.

For some of Europe's indebted clubs, match fixing is part of the business plan.

Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: "Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, 'Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.' "71

Do you remember being at school and picking sides for a game of football? We do this at Liverpool for the five-a-sides. Diouf was 'last pick' within a few weeks.

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.

Every international at Lyon is untransferable. Until the offer surpasses by far the amount we had expected.

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

being large and rich helps a country win matches, but having a long soccer history helps a lot more.

Part of the manager's job is to act as scapegoat, shielding his club's owners from blame.

Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.