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Quotes About Football

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
~ Vicente del Bosque
Escucha con atención lo que han dado por llamar titulares y que él bien sabe que todos los días es la misma cosa. Los muertos de hoy sustituyen a los de ayer, los políticos con sus necedades perpetuas y los futbolistas adormeciendo voluntades.
~ Unknown
I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best
~ Neymar
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
~ Zinedine Zidane
If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
~ Walter Payton
The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.
~ John Madden
Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.
~ Lionel Messi
The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
~ Jock Stein
I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!
~ Ian Holloway
Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him
~ Glenn Hoddle
I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.
~ Hidetoshi Nakata
Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.
~ Rio Ferdinand
I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
~ Alan Hansen
Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.
~ Rafael van der Vaart
Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world.
~ Unknown
The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.
~ Kevin Sampsell
The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.
~ Paul Ince
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
~ Bill Shankly
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.
~ Bill Belichick
Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.
~ Frank Lampard
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.
~ Jermain Defoe
I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
~ Jon Bon Jovi