Quotes About Football

My dream is Chelsea. They are great, and my objective is to play there.

My objective is to play in the Champions League.

My objective is to coach the national team.

It's not really important whether we play beautiful football. It will be good if we play attacking football and score a lot of goals. But the main objective is to win.

Always, you have these objectives when you are young. You think you can be the best, and that's what I have to be because, if not, I'm not playing football.

I do feel the obligation and desire to win the Scudetto with Juventus, and obviously everybody wants to win the Champions League.

I've been observing Ramadan during all the years I've been in football. It's very important that you eat well. It's important that you eat the right food because you can gain weight or you can have less food in your body.

I'm probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.

The Champions League is our obsession, the No. 1 objective for Juventus.

What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player.

The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He's an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn't. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

There is no reason why cricket shouldn't be the number one alternative to football. And at a time when there are obvious divisions in society, cricket has a great role to play in bringing people together from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and faiths.

You see the likes of the Barcelonas and Real Madrids, and you always want to play against them and, obviously, Bayern Munich too.

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

Obviously, I'd love to play for my country.

Obviously, it was an amazing feeling to play for Liverpool for the first time. It was a little bit funny to be playing against Sunderland, but it is still an amazing feeling every time I put on the Liverpool shirt.

I have been at Leicester since I was 12 and to play for England at the King Power is obviously going to be my dream.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Francesca the Football Fairy

It is otherwise with sports and the media. There, too, a shift has occurred, from active participation to the vicarious participation of spectatorship. Four people used to go bowling, but 100 million watch the Super Bowl. Football, where men try to hit and hurt, has replaced baseball as the national game. It is as if the demotion from participant to spectatorship and from live spectatorship to TV spectatorship has to be compensated by upping the ante in violence.

The president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909, Charles William Eliot, thought that ball-carriers in football ought not search for holes in the line that could lead to gaudy breakaway runs, but should do the modest, gentlemanly thing and plow headfirst into the nearest man-pile. (Eliot also didn't like baseball because he believed curveballs and other deceptive pitches to be unsportsmanlike.)

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.