“This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude.” WayEndsHomeLastsPerfectAttitudeFootballApproachFantasticParksGoodbyeFacilitySaying GoodbyeGood WayMillenniumVictoriaNew ApproachNew Attitude Author:Eddie McGuire
“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.” PeopleKnowsWritingHomeFieldsFootballBedMy FamilyLettersPrisonDid You KnowFootball FieldBunk Author:Michael Vick
“I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.” KnowsHomeRememberCommunityViolenceFootballWorkersWinterStrikesViolentClosingBombingManchesterBirminghamIraFootball Match Author:Noel Gallagher
“I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.” PeopleFactsHomeTodayBeautifulLife IsFeltMinutesFootballPrideManagersSoccerChairmanLife Is BeautifulToday Life Author:Arsene Wenger
“It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.” ReasonPlayHomeSportsEventsHonestyFieldsFootballCapacityFundamentalsFaultsTrackIsraelLondonRussiaManagersSoccerOlympicsTestamentSaturdayAthleticChairmanVenuesTrack And FieldLondon OlympicsWigan Author:Martin Samuel
“And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France” HomeFootballFrancePlanesCommentatorsArgentina Author:Clive Tyldesley
“Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.” IfsWantStillsPlayHomeKidsWantedSidesFiveFootballClubsSundayComing HomeMates Author:Kevin Kilbane
“I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.” PeopleThinkingHomeGamesFrontsFootballCrowdsReacting Author:Tom Brady
“In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.” HomeGoalEnemyObjectsFootballCrossesBaseballMarchTerritory Author:George Carlin
“The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.” WantFirstsHomeCertainIndividualSocialClassIssuesRightsMovementFootballCivil RightsDefinedIntegrationSocial IssuesCivil Rights MovementFirst Class Author:Jim Brown
“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.” YearsHomeFormThreeLeftParentChanceFootballNeededBallsThree YearsDivorcedSecond Chance Author:Vinnie Jones
“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.” FirstsWellsEndsPlayHomeGamesNamesFourFansSpecialFootballBasesBlessedGreenIncrediblesHopefullyPacksSupportiveTrophiesPlayoffsMvpGreen BayRepayingPlayoff GamesLombardi Author:Aaron Rodgers
“It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.” I CanReasonPlayHomeWaitingFansFootballTrophiesMvpLombardi Author:Aaron Rodgers
“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!” IfsLongUseHomeSportsLinesKnownEnemyFieldsObjectsFootballWallSafeBaseballDefenseHolesBombsSpiteTargetMarchTerritoryTroopsHittingBulletsAssaultAccuracyQuarterbackReceiverShotgunsBlitz Author:George Carlin
“Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.” DoeRealHomeSchoolReligionGamesPoliticsGoalPrayerAudienceTelevisionFootballPrayingCreaturesUrgesAssemblyRatingAll AloneFootball Game Author:Garry Wills
“I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.” HomeNightGoalFootballOne DayObsessed Author:Oliver Kahn
“I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.” WayPlayHomeRunningSportsFootballBrokenBasketballBaseballTinyStayingBroken Homes Author:Gerry Lindgren
“You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.” PeopleKnowsHumansHomeRunningSportsBrainKnow HowPlayerFootballBaseballScoreHuman BrainBaseball PlayerFootball PlayerHome RunTouchdowns Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.” ShouldHas BeensStillsHomeFormPlayerFansStyleFootballHugeAmountLowsIdealsEnglandRateAdmireShirtsSpainProfileLiverpoolScholesPaul ScholesMidfielders Author:Xabi Alonso
“Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.” IfsHomeSportsWatchesFootballEntertainmentCoachesTitlesStadiumsFootball CoachMourinho Author:Johan Cruijff
“Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.” WantHeartPlayHomeHouseFootballMy HeartConvinceDeep Down Author:Deion Sanders
“Kenny was actually here at Melwood as a 15-year-old schoolboy. He came on trial and he went home afterwards. It was only later that Bill Shankly realised that Dalglish was here as a boy and he went mad! He said 'how did we miss him?' Kenny just had the football brain. He was born with it and you can't give that to people. He had that natural born talent.” PeopleGivingYearsSaidHomeBornNaturalBrainBoysTalentMissingFootballBillsMadTrialsRealisedKenny Author:Ian St John
“It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!” MomentsHomeHappensCareersTeamFootballProudest MomentsEnglish Football Author:Casey Stoney
“I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.” ThinkingPlayHomeFilmFootballMakersFootballer Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.” IfsWantLooksMayPlayHomeOpportunityGivenCitiesFootballElsewhereSomewhere ElseManchesterManchester City Author:Joe Hart
“When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.” WantYearsSaidHomeBigsSchoolBeautifulMotherHouseStrongSidesGrowing UpGrowingPlayerFootballProjectsDressesSouthNineThese DaysChairsChicagoDaddyGhettoBoxersFootball PlayerNine YearsMommaRocking Chairs Author:Mr. T
“Nights were hard during my staying at the TV show because while my Playmate friends got to go out and party, I would have to be home by 9 p.m. I'd get a text message from a girl that read, 'Having so much fun in Vegas. Wish you were here! Partying with all these football players,' and that was devastating. I felt so trapped and angry when I was missing out on something good.” HomeNightGirlFunWishPartyPlayerMissingFootballFootball PlayerMissing OutText Message Author:Kendra Wilkinson
“I never really looked at it like that, but it's true. It's weird that it's been half my life. Because I lead these two separate lives. I've got my life and Harry Potter, where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before. I still go to the pub. I still go to watch the football, soccer. And I go shopping at my local shop.” PeopleWorldHomeFilmFootballSoccerHarry PotterTravel The WorldAmazing People Author:Matthew Lewis
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” MindChildrenLongHomeCareFilmLeftDifficultNaturalStyleFootballActivityImportanceFilledPatternsHeavyNeighborBeerGamblingHorizonPettyQuarrelsCattleArgentinaFilled Up Author:George Orwell