Quotes About Football

It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it's anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I'm all for punting in video games.

I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.

More than anything tough, I play 'Madden'. I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I'm really into them.

Pep Guardiola is like going to university. I spent a year with him at City, learning something new every day. On the playing field, watching videos or at any time, when he approaches you and explains things to you. He has no problem teaching someone at 34 years old, as I was, like someone who is 18. He is a great teacher.

Growing up, I watched other teams, and I fell in love with Arsenal. I wasn't really interested in posters, but I saw many, many videos. Players like Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira made me love the club, and I dreamt of going there.

Everywhere I went, Rapid Vienna or Austria Vienna, there was always a problem. I just wanted a coach who said: 'Just go out and win us the game.'

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

She had a vague notion that dogs preferred football and politics. This

Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.

no doubt, the early traumatic shocks that young hardy brown experienced had a permanent impact on his future development and capacity to deal with the real world.... the years with the mighty mites within the orphanage setting, a term that we seldom see in modern society, provided him with a safe and non-threatening enclave with which to develop. certainly, the competitive, action-oriented game of football, as meshed with positive team experiences, added to the supportive culture.

Russell knew that football could jump-start a life. Football had been his ticket off the farm. Football would eventually help the orphans navigate these tough times.

Our football budget," he said, "is the change you are carrying around in your pants pocket.

At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.

the television money comes in, the top couple of clubs hog most of it. In England the

It was victory – handsomely achieved – that sold. Nothing else would do. And Ferguson, Cantona, Giggs and the new United provided it.

Together Law, Charlton and Best – Old Trafford's golden trinity – made Manchester United.

The ground hosted an international between England and Scotland in April 1926, which the Scots won 1-0 in front of a crowd of forty-nine thousand.

What that picture represents is the first ever photographic record of a tracksuit manager in British football.

Some of the habits back then seem not so much of another era as from a different planet. On the Friday lunchtime before home games, for instance, the trainer Tom Curry used to inflate the match ball, lace it up and immerse it in a bucket of water, where it stayed, kept submerged by a brick, until just before kick-off. It would then be pulled out ready for action, saturated, weighing about half a ton.

To play for Manchester United in 1956 was not remotely of the same order of national prominence as to play for them half a century later. Not least because Taylor, Edwards, Viollet and the rest were on a basic wage of £15, with an appearance fee of £5 and a win bonus of £3.