Best Football Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 27

“Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?”

Sometimes Games Wonder Football Ireland Referee

“There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.”

Knows World Kids Age Certain Cutting Player Football England Throat Mates

Author:Frank Lampard

“The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.”

Hard Play Games Watches Football Theater Again And Again Heartbreaking Disappointing

Author:John Malkovich

“Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.”

Grief Football England Load Bananas Nans

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.”

Hate Winning Football Losing And Love I Hate England Playing Football Love Winning

Author:Wayne Rooney

“His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)”

Want Believe Looks Doe Seems Suffering Sound Simple Football Balls England Passing Passings Believe In Me Beckham

Author:Graham Taylor

“In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.”

Certain Cases Football England Say Anything Never Change

Author:Steve Bruce

“God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)”

Given Deals Attitude Football England

Author:Graeme Souness

“If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.”

Ifs Stills Football England Footballer Playing Football

Author:Alan Shearer

“I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.”

Ifs Thinking Play Winning Environment Team Football Type Deserve Seasons Handle Great Things Football Season

Author:Bill Simmons

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

Football Great Things Yelling Performing Live

Author:Michael Strahan

“I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)”

Football Red International Upset Shirts Retiring Wales Red Shirt

Author:Robbie Savage

“In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.”

Long Two Week Football Long Time England Two Days

Author:Steve McClaren

“Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.”

Knows Said Character Guy Loses Talking Football Basketball Losing Baseball Ass Loser Talking About Me

Author:Christopher Titus

“Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.”

Ifs Simple Football Late Too Late Netherlands

Author:Johan Cruijff

“In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.”

Thinking Firsts I Can Can Do Team Football Seasons Spain English Football

Author:Luis Garcia

“I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.”

Play Kids Football Mom My Mom Hated Guarantees Someday Grandmother

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.”

Football Baseball

Author:Colin Kaepernick

“The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football. (on returning to the premiership)”

Play Wanted Enjoy Goal Lines Morning Support Fronts Football England Wake Up Bottom Fantastic League Fancy Saturday Bottom Line Premier League Saturday Morning Scoring Goals

Author:Michael Owen

“Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy. (on former teammate Luboslav Penev)”

People Giving Moments Remember Given Football Giving Up Tough Mercy Sick Remains Cancer Fighter Former Remember When Never Giving Up Teammate Given Up Bulgaria Tough Moments

Author:Hristo Stoichkov

“First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)”

Firsts Football Journalist Reports Traffic Jam Bulgaria Traffic Jam Bulgarians

Author:Ivan Slavkov

“What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!”

Needs Should Art Games Behinds Doors Football Spectators Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors Bulgaria

Author:Ivan Slavkov

“The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.”

Wells Running Football Unions Footballer Bulgaria Bulgarians

Author:Ivan Slavkov

“I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)”

Football England Boring Glad Euro

Author:Andy Townsend

“We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'”

Thinking Men Needs Littles Sometimes Running Fighting Sports Team Dog Havens Football Couple Germany Friendly Benches Footballer

Author:Otto Rehhagel

“A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.”

Men Giving Trying Said Whole Bigs Names Happened Week Team Figures Football Germany They Said Football Team Give And Take Big Families

Author:Otto Rehhagel

“Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.”

Ifs Football Balls Harder Sweden

Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson

“I know enough football to know that's funny!”

Knows Enough Football

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.”

Use Jobs Lasts Games Teaching Car Fields Football Tvs Cameras Access Driving Setting Locals Settings Stations Vans Mobile Covering Fixing Football Game Grownups

Author:Louis C. K.

“Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.”

Turns Football Please Coaches Football Coach

Author:Dana Gould

“My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.”

Fantasy Team Football Stuck Ships Suits Chicks Pirate Football Team Catwoman Pirate Ships Fantasy Football

Author:Dana Gould

“I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.”

Want Football Red Wine Nfl Things In Life Workout Lap Conjunctions Red Wine Nfl Football Cardiovascular Lap Dances

Author:Dom Irrera

“Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.”

Sometimes Play Age Cases Team Football Bigger Stronger Athlete League Stronger Than Ever

Author:Naveen Jain

“I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.”

Want I Can Jobs Careers Football Amount My Time Being The Best

Author:J. J. Watt

“The whole experience...I have been just stunned. It has helped so much. I can't believe that in this sport that has no so-called heart, it's really so full of heart. That's the truth; Football is full of heart.”

Believe Heart Has Beens I Can Whole Sports Football Stunned

Author:Devon Still

“The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.”

Way Believe Art I Believe Causes Sports Enjoy Levels Risk Dangerous Football Serious Truth Is Impact Trauma Driving Life Changing Injury Vitality Paralysis

Author:Naveen Jain

“What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?”

Way Ends Moments School Dying Car Possibility Youth Football Paper Unique Finals Seats Routes Workout Stolen Borrowed Muddy Irreplaceable After School Cramming Paddy

Author:William Broyles, Jr.

“Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.”

Ifs Today Football

Author:Elton Welsby

“Every girl who has dated a football player ... They all have sex the same way.”

Way Girl Sex Player Football Football Player Every Girl

Author:Kim Kardashian

“When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.”

Wanted Football Pounds Playing Football

Author:Bill Fagerbakke

“There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the Riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.”

Littles Ends Moving Bits Football Ready Little Bit Rivers Dancing Zone Popcorn Cruz Ballroom

Author:Emmitt Smith

“I don't have the proudest moment in football.”

Moments Football Proudest Moments

Author:Darrell Royal

“A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.”

Should Ends Play Action Process Results Careers Player Football Fine Decided Mark End Results Football Match

Author:Michel Patini

“Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.”

People Television Football Drama Penalties Melodrama

Author:Simon Barnes

“I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.”

Games Sides Ability Team Football Six Seasons Towns East Dragons Tails Athletic Inspirational Team Touchdowns East Side Athletic Ability

Author:LeBron James

“We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.”

Knows Want Trying Kind Hard Play Guy Three Winning Left Support Team Football Couple Winning Football

Author:Nick Saban

“Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.”

Culture Player Fields Football Pure Competition Intense Beans Sausage Doping English Football Lager Belching Baked Beans

Author:Paolo Di Canio

“Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.”

Games Belief Football Baseball Superiors Firm Firm Beliefs

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.”

Stories Night Three Boys Football Brother Bed Glory Filled Rate Hug Elders Annuals

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.”

Want Giving Done Running Fighting Social Football Frozen Realised Hood Pariahs

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

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