“There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.” WayWould BeLeftGrowsBehindsWiseTroubleFootballFasterStoppingLeft Behind Author:Wayne Rooney
“The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.” PeopleReasonFoundGamesLeftFootballSmellGladWrong Reasons Author:Graham Taylor
“Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.” ArtGuyLeftFootballPaintingSkillsDrawingScholarshipLeft Handed Author:Terry Crews
“Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.” WayCharacterWinningLeftSuccessfulFootballPersonalityMarkCoachesFormerPhrasesCharismaDistinctiveCatchyDamesFootball CoachNotre DameDynamic Personality Author:Carl Pohlad
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.” MenSaidPlayFactsWantedSchoolFatherLeftStageFootballFoolAssPro Football Author:Bill Cosby
“I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.” WantYearsMadeAgeLeftFootballCoachesEngineering 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.” IfsLeftFunWatchesFootball Author:Jeffrey Loria
“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.” IfsWayWantShouldLongTurnsLeftSleepWalksWonderCareersMorningFourPlayerDogFootballWalkingSceneHorseWake UpWineGolfCellsManagersSoccerShoppingMy DogChairmanAlexReally LongSwitchingFergusonLong CareersSwitching Off Author:Roy Keane
“Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.” MenEnoughFactsLeftInterestingResultsMediaFootballHeroDiscoveryFilledPressesManagersSoccerGentlemanParksProportionGood EnoughRealisingVoidHammersAstonishingChairmanLegendaryRare Things Author:Declan Lynch
“It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.” IfsLeftFootballManagersSoccerChairman Author:Graham Taylor
“I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.” ShouldGamesLeftGoalChancePlayerFootballShotsShould HaveHorribleSoccer Author:Robinho
“He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.” AsksLeftFootballBallsLegsSleevesCommentatorsDefenders Author:Clive Tyldesley
“The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.” GamesLeftSidesFootballIndustryChessConsumersPro FootballConniving Author:Betty Furness
“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 played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.” CountryProblemAbleFoundLeftFiguresFootballCollegeHugeDoctorsUniversityReleaseInjuryDrsKnotsBakersCollege FootballHamstrings Author:Corey Dillon
“I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.” WantPlayLeftPlayerFootballCamerasSticksShyLeft AloneFootball Player Author:Reggie Bush
“It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.” MeanDoeLeftWishFansFootballProudCostPaidBillsClubsSoccerOwnersBe ProudScotlandIdentificationHumiliatingCeltic Author:Fergus McCann
“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.” KnowsWantTryingKindHardPlayGuyThreeWinningLeftSupportTeamFootballCoupleWinning Football Author:Nick Saban
“It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.” FactsLastsLeftClassFootballMusic IsRefugeWorking ClassGigsJacketsRiotLeatherLeather Jackets Author:Pete Doherty
“Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.” WantGivingFeelsMeanJobsLeftGrowsSidesMy OwnRiskFootballInvolvedAmbitionDaughterMy FamilyCoachesMy DaughterMy Own LifeI Love Football Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.” IfsMenPlayWantedLeftGoneTeamFootballTwentiesClubsLiverpoolPlaying Football Author:Jamie Carragher
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.” WorldPersonsGuyWinningIndividualLeftGoalPlayerTeamFootballWorriedTitlesRememberedDecentBeing The BestAwardsRetiringGood PersonBest FootballFootball PlayerBeing A Good PersonScoring GoalsDecent Guys Author:Lionel Messi
“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
“To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.” ThinkingLeftWaitingFieldsFootballRegretCarolinaNorth CarolinaFootball Field Author:Sarah Addison Allen
“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.” DreamFatherHouseLeftInterestRoomsCitiesTeamLove YouFootballEvidenceArmyMetaphorDefinitionsDesertTriumphOppositionThrivePrizeCelestialFootball TeamAmerican Gods Author:Neil Gaiman
“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” IfsYearsBookDoneFeelingsSchoolLastsFallLeftMistakeAirFootballSummerPagesCleanObligationPassingPassingsHatsAutumnVacationLast YearSeptemberGatheringAnnualsSchool DaysJubilee Author:Wallace Stegner