Quotes About Football

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that, we're very similar.

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

Being an Arsenal fan, at the end of every season I say the same thing: we've got a good team, a young team, hopefully, we'll be in the running for the league title next season.

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

Only Bayern Munich really have some sort of a guarantee to win if they only catch a good day. All the others need really good days to win. I like that.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC.