Football Quotes - Page 10

• He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

  George Best

  Feet, Goal, Balls

  "How George Best Became The World's First Playboy Footballer" by Richard T Kelly, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.

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• I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Basketball, Player, Men

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.164, Ballantine Books

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• Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

  Barry Sanders

  Nfl, Important, Life Is

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• I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

  Walt Garrison

  Texas, Looks, Royal

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• Football, bloody hell!

  Alex Ferguson

  Hell, Bloody

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• The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.

  Tony Cottee

  Goal, Score, Stupid Sports

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• I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Boys, Games, Water

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• I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Way, Predictions

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• They were numerically outnumbered.

  Garry Birtles

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• I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

  Clinton Morrison

  Team, Three, Half Time

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• American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

  Sue Lawley

  Party, Nfl, Looks

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• Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

  Brett Favre

  Important, Wells

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview by Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate

  Thierry Henry

  Sleep, Mad, Passionate

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• I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Hands, Sometimes

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• Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

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• Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Simple, Player

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• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Oct 22, 2014

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• My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

  Bowden Wyatt

  Player, College, Advice

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• Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

  Eric Cantona

  Wanted, Stills, Plantations

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• Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

  Paul Brown

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  War, Games, Acquisition

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• Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

  Pele

  Player, Thinking, Balls

  Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).

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• Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

  Frank Leahy

  College, Practice, Nfl

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