Best football & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.”

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Author:Mike Singletary

“If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.”

Ifs Kids Football Hockey

Author:Daley Thompson

“In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.”

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Author:Lawrence Taylor

“I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.”

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Author:Paul Tagliabue

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

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Author:Keith Millard

“I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.”

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Author:Kate Mara

“If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.”

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Author:S. Robson Walton

“I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.”

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Author:Ronaldinho

“If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.”

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Author:Michael Corbat

“He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.”

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Author:Len Hutton

“I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.”

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Author:Howard Roberts

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.”

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Author:Mercury Morris

“If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football.”

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Author:Charles Woodson

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

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Book:Every Second Counts

Source: Every Second Counts

“If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.”

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Author:Steven Gerrard

“If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.”

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Author:Mohamed Al-Fayed

“If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.”

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Author:Rio Ferdinand

“If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.”

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Author:Steve Bunce

“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.”

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Author:Jakaya Kikwete

“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”

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Author:Eamon

“One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.”

“I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.”

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Author:Jeffrey Loria

“However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.”

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Author:Johan Cruijff

“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.”

“If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.”

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Author:Ronald Koeman

“Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.”

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Author:Giovanni Trapattoni

“Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.”

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Author:Roy Keane

“There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.”

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Author:Roy Keane

“If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.”

“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?”

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Author:Claudio Ranieri

“This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.”

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Author:Luiz Felipe Scolari

“We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

“If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

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