Quotes About Football

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

I chose Juventus for their winning mindset.

I take the mindset that regardless of what happens on the field, I try to learn from my mistakes, and fix those things and be able to be a better football player than I was the week before.

Life isn't that complicated. I'm completely happy playing football. I'm happy to get out of the coal mines.

I think the difference with Japan was that they didn't bring in too many foreign players. In my opinion at the ISL it's not too good to have too many foreigners playing. The minimum of five Indian players is too less in my opinion. Since it's the ISL, we have to encourage more Indian football.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.

In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

The game is changing so much. It's not the same game anymore and I don't know, I don't like it. And the money that they're giving these people -- they don't have to workout with their pads two days in a row. Their antics, it's not for me anymore, sorry to say.

When I was ten, I told her about my plans to play football. Most mothers would try to talk their son out of such a notion, but Mom encouraged me.

Una gran exclamación recorrió a la multitud, la exclamación se transformó en risas, en aplausos, y fue la verosimilización definitiva de la aventura. El fútbol era la realidad infinita que los abarcaba a todos, el Gran Sueño que daba continuidad a sus días y densidad narrativa a sus vidas.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It's violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football divisions were a stupid and irrelevant nonsense, acting against the interest of working-class unity, ensuring that the bourgeoisie's hegemony went unchallenged.

Quien bien te quiere te hará llorar, dice el refrán. Yo soy la prueba viviente de que es lo mejor. A ver, que a mí nunca me verás tener problemas de ninguna clase con la poli desde hace ya mucho. Me aprendí la puta lección: no me meto en líos y los evito todo lo posible. Lo único que le pido a la vida es beber un poco, el fútbol y echar un polvo de vez en cuando.

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978 -Mark Renton

Git tae fuck Stevie. You're pickin up some bad habits doon in London, ah'm tellin ye man. I fucking detest televised football. It's like shagging wi a durex oan. Safe fuckin sex, safe fuckin fitba, safe fuckin everything. Let's all build a nice safe wee world around ourselves, he mocked, his face contorting. Stevie had forgotten the extent of Sick Boy's natural outrage.

Ah'd rather see ma sister in a brothel than ma brother in a Hearts scarf n that's fuckin true...

When you're playing football, you have to have that zero fear. Because if you're scared, you're going to maybe not reach out for a ball, because there's a safety in the middle of the field. Or you might not want to make a play because you're going to be hit really hard.

The thing was, if I had a bad game, I was 'the Man United reject.' If I had a good game, it was 'Man United star on loan.' And I just thought, 'I don't need that anymore.' One minute, I was hero; the next minute, I was zero. I just didn't need it. I'd rather just play football.