Football Quotes
303 quotes
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."
"The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter."
"I know the X’s and O’s of football. I just don’t know the other 24 letters. And as a writer, this bothers me."
"You know who’s not money? @JManziel2. Quarterbacks should stay in the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Ask any politician."
"Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this."
"As a sculptor, I prefer busts. As a lover of women, I prefer busts. And as a football enthusiast, I prefer Robert Griffin III."
"I have a 12:34 representational time dance. I do it at 3:33 every other Tuesday (twice a day). If you’d like to participate in my choreographed dance routine, bring a football helmet and a half empty can of tuna (keeps the stray cats away, because I perform in a gritty, grimy downtown alley)."
"The other day I went to the Huddle House. I wasn’t hungry, I just wanted to call some plays."
"Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."
"If football players wanted to protect their brains from injury they’d wear astronaut helmets. After all, astronauts have massive IQ’s, so wearing their protective headgear seems like a smart choice."
"The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them."
"And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball."
"You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football."
"The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs."
Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
"Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle."
"Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark."
"In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game."
"The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet."
"Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn't come with money and it doesn't come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionateabout what you do. That's having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That's having a life of success. That's what having a life of meaning is."
"I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness."
"Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings."
"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."
"You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone."
"[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important."
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
"Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule."
Peter Richmond, Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders
"Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake."
"It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen."
"I've never bonded with anyone before. I didn't know that day on the field that standing up to him the way I did could earn his respect. He might have been an asshole homophobe but he was my asshole homophobe and probably the first real friend I ever had. I love him. Don't tell him. He wouldn't want to hear it."
Mercy Celeste, Bootleg Diva: Confessions of a Quarterback Princess by Levi Brody
"There are people in my life who count more than playing soccer in Serie A"
"I think you're a shit,’ said Keith sharply. ‘I think much of what you’ve done this season is shit and I think what you've put everyone involved with this club through is shit. How’s that?"
"Well we certainly don't want to see that kind of thing,’ admonished Jeff Stelling. ‘Did it calm down?’‘No,’ shouted Kamara. ‘It got worse. The police were just getting involved when the chairman was hit by a pie thrown from the crowd.’‘Was he injured?’ asked Stelling, struggling to suppress a giggle.‘I don’t think so,’ laughed Kamara. ‘He sat down and started eating it!"
"Oh really?’ said Mayes raising a mocking eyebrow which put Rob in mind of a poor man’s Roger Moore. ‘And what on earth makes you think that you of all people would be allowed anywhere near our board meeting? Rob’s smile widened as he realised that he was about to have one of those golden bombshell moments of the type he’d been on the receiving end of all too frequently over the last few days. ‘Because Mr. Mayes, I’m your new chairman."
"Jane turned and looked at Rob who was still staring into space with a crazed look on his face. ‘Are you listening to this?’ she said as she thumped him on the arm. Rob turned to her and broke into a broad grin. ‘Listening to what?’ he laughed. ‘I’m loaded. I don’t have to listen to anything!’‘Yes you do,’ said England calmly. ‘You have to listen very carefully."
"A game?’ Rob spluttered. ‘A bloody game?’ He turned to face his father. ‘This is your bloody fault! I’m living your bloody karma!"
"You see football isn’t just about 90 minutes, it‘s about passion and, yes, if you like, about life. We men will do things under the umbrella of football fandom that we would never dream of doing in any other sphere of life, and within the pages that follow I will try and explain why."
Dougie Brimson, Geezer's Guide to Football: A Lifetime of Lads, Lager and Labels
"One of the things about football fans in general is that they all think that they’re the same. But they are not. This is a myth put about by people who wish that they were the same as the geezers. There are, in fact, a number of distinctive types of supporter, and although they all have a role to play, they are all very different indeed."
Dougie Brimson, Geezer's Guide to Football: A Lifetime of Lads, Lager and Labels
"Two hours later, a noise resembling a hippo rolling along a corrugated iron roof shook Jane from her doze and Rob bursts through the living room door."
"[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey."
"Women‘s football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn’t and they don’t. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will."
Dougie Brimson, Geezer's Guide to Football: A Lifetime of Lads, Lager and Labels
"To be perfectly honest, if I had my way women wouldn’t even be allowed inside grounds, and I certainly believe that if a ground is sold out and a male of the species is locked outside, someone should go in, grab the nearest female and throw her out so that the bloke can have her seat."
Dougie Brimson, Geezer's Guide to Football: A Lifetime of Lads, Lager and Labels
"The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"I see football as an art and all players are artists.If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted."
"As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football."
"The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation."
"When truth becomes like a football that is kicked and tossed around by passers-by. That grieves God’s heart"
"I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving."
"Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will come right, for football is a game that rewards those who show courage."
"I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow."
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