Quotes About Football

I started playing football with my mates and my brothers, in the playground or the park or the front garden. It was just about enjoying it, having a good time playing. I wanted to play all the time.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.

My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

I'm just a lad playing for Liverpool, trying to achieve his dream, so to see a lad with my name on his shirt - when I grew up having the names of other players on my shirt - it meant a lot.

Football is a fickle game - if I do get the jeers and the boos I'm just going to take it as them missing me playing down there because I miss Southampton. I miss the fans and I miss the good times we had down there. Of course I do.

I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.

I wouldn't have went to school if I wasn't playing football.

I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it.

For me, at the level I'm playing at, I would love to finish my career at Liverpool if you gave me that option.

This game has done a lot for me personally. I've said this before, football really leveled the playing field for me as a person.

I love playing football. I love being happy. I love playing games. I think that's going to be the ultimate deciding factor in where I go.

I watched Cardiff when I was a young boy. I also watched Newport. If I wasn't playing games on Saturday, for Newport YMCA or Pill, I would jump on a train and get to watch Cardiff.

I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is.

For a football fan, there might be nothing better than watching a playoff game at Lambeau Field - and seeing it decided, dramatically, in overtime.

I loved the three years I had in Cleveland, especially that playoff run with Timmy Couch and Kelly Holcomb. And obviously those great years in Pittsburgh.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

I think running the ball effectively is the key to winning games in the playoffs.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.