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Quotes About Football

Homecoming means parades, football and reuniting with old friends. And as I recall from my youth, a little beer.
~ Unknown
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
~ Jack Kemp
In this league, a team needs more than one star striker,
~ Unknown
He's [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.
~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football.
~ John Grisham
A public road had been closed to us so that a rich man could watch the Super Bowl in his playhouse and show his rich friends the nuclear football.
~ John Hodgman
Soccer' is not an Americanism. It's short for 'Association Football' and was popularised by Charles Wreford-Brown, captain of the English national team 1894–5.
~ John Lloyd
Football's the kind of game where, if your team's doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually enjoy looking forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theater of emotions, not dreams.
~ John Lydon
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
~ Susan Orlean
There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.
~ Anonymous
As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.
~ Dan Jenkins
Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.
~ Jim Harbaugh
I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.
~ Jamie Carragher
Shkodran Mustafi is a great choice, he's a great defender with lots of experience. He played with the German national team so we know his quality.
~ Unknown
Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.
~ Ricky Williams
un partido de fútbol, esa forma de guerra más sofisticada, que exige que las ideas lleguen a los pies.
~ Manuel Rivas
Quintana had known Tubbs since high school; Tubbs had been one of the slightly nerdy intellectuals on the edge of the popular clique, while Quintana had been metal shop and a football lineman.
~ John Sandford
I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.
~ Wayne Rooney
On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.
~ Kurt Warner
I'm going to have my family after I play football.
~ Terrell Owens
When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
~ Jermain Defoe
Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family
~ Johnny Giles