Quotes About Football

The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.

I watched so many matches of Jarnail Singh, P.K. Banerjee, Chuni Goswami and Peter Thangaraj.

Football is actually pretty limited and there are only really four phases: When you have the ball yourself, when the opponent has the ball and when you win the ball or lose the ball. That is football, really, there isn't more to it.

Emery wants us to reach the goal in two phases, playing aggressive football.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar are phenomenal.

I played behind Phil Thompson and Alan Hansen, and they were both brilliant centre-halves.

My first year with the Giants they cut Phil Simms. That was the best thing to ever happen to me because George Young loved Phil Simms and it just made me realize that it's a business and you can't take it personally.

I'm very grateful for my time in Philadelphia and I want to thank the Eagles organization for the opportunity to play here.

By the time I was in first grade, we had settled in New Jersey, and that's where I grew up, outside of Philadelphia, right in the heart of Eagles country.

Philadelphia is a football town. Boston is a baseball town.

I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

The Philippines is unfortunately not a football country - basketball is more popular.

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you've got 40,000 men in trilbies. That's paradise, man.

I love football, but I'm also very passionate about photography and film.

The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'

I don't buy into the phrase 'comedy genius.' It's like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard work, the other ten per cent is trying to make it all look as natural as possible.

I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.

Football is getting more and more physical every day. There is no way to avoid contact.

I think there's always mental and physical aspects of football.

Lockdowns have denied hundreds of thousands of kids access to football and, with no organised physical activity as an escape, some are becoming addicted to X-Boxes and Playstations.

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.