Quotes About Football

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

I've only played for Watford, so I'm a one-man club.

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.

The only way I'd ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that's the only way I would do it.

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

But if there was no Barcelona why would you get out of bed in the morning?

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.