Quotes About Football

You look at guys with significant Alzheimer's and dementia and the mood swings and the suicides that unfortunately NFL players have been faced with. And depression. Lou Gehrig's disease. These are all things that have kind of been linked to the brain damage from football.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

You see far more swings and misses on can't-miss football recruits than basketball blue chips.

Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

Playing against Messi, as I've said before, is as tough a test of your concentration as any in football. At any moment, he can take the mickey out of you. Physically, it is demanding, but mentally even more so. You cannot switch off.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Never would I switch to Bayern.

I would not switch Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson for any other player in Norway.

One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.

I had a breakthrough in my football life. Now I switch to the left. I make goals. I pass. I am evolving.

Although the Premier League is tough because players have good physiques and can switch swiftly in offense and defense, it can be overcome after adapting to the league for a few months.

It's not hard at all to make the switch from United to Oranje. For a manager, it's totally different than for a player.

At home I have a mixing desk that I like playing around on. It's great fun making music myself. And music has always been a very good counterbalance to football for me. It allows me to switch off and relax.

I see other teams playing aggressive, attacking football, they are games I switch on and watch. They are the football teams I want to produce.

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

When we go out to train, we work hard, but when we're back in the hotel, you want to chill out. People want to switch off from football because you spend so much time doing it. For me, switching off means playing jokes.

I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride - always do.

Well, Germany and Spain are huge footballing nations with very big clubs. They have greater resources and even more quality in their ranks. They're under pressure to win every game, which isn't the case in Switzerland.

I have always had sympathy for Atletico Madrid because, among other things, I have friends there, and my father always liked Atletico.

Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.

My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

Moving to Fleetwood was a shock to the system at first. I'd never been at a full-time club.

The greatest coach in basketball history began his professional career coaching football players at basketball.

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.