“You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.” MindBookJobsEnergyFootballDamage Author:Howard Wilkinson
“Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.” ThinkingMindUseSportsFootballReflectionReactionsParadoxAnticipate Author:Dhani Jones
“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.” IfsMenMindMadePlayRunningLastsFoundHalfNicePlayerMinutesFootballHugeTerribleBeatsNegativeTonightConcertsFifteenLiverpoolStreaksBarcelonaNice Man Author:Eamon
“But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.” KnowsWayMindMayPastGonePlayerHappenedOne ThingTeamFootballMonthsTablesBottomSoccerAnalysisLeaguePrizeMeaninglessAnother WayInadequateAugustFractionsPremier LeagueDerbyPrize Money Author:Pete Gill
“It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.” MindTwoFootballSeasonsManagersSoccerChairmanChelseaMourinho Author:Rafael Benitez
“I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.” IfsMindSportsFootballFineSeasonsBest Football Author:Ron Jaworski
“There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.” MindWarFieldsFootballMusic IsBeatsBalletSimilarityTempoFrame Of MindBeing Played Author:Cam Newton
“In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.” MindFeelingsBodyFootballTasteToolsWineActressesYour BodyAgeingModelling Author:Ludivine Sagnier
“Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsMindI CanImportantCan DoSecretFieldsFootballTennisI Can Do ItBadminton Author:Nicklas Bendtner
“Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.” IfsFeelsMindPlaySchoolGuyGamesTalkingWonderPlayerFootballFinePleaseSeasonsDefenseShouldersLeagueAvoidingGearsOld SchoolHelmetSloppyCupcakesTacklingNfl Players Author:Phillip Daniels
“Everybody who plays top-level sport, whether it's golf or football, or whatever, needs to get into 'The Zone'... For me personally, on the morning of a round, preparation is always about getting into the zone. The less I communicate with other people, the better. I'm trying to rehearse in my mind what I am working on in my game: going through my swing keys, going through my putting keys. When I get to the course I get the pin positions for the day and I'll analyze those. I'll make a strategy for the golf course and look how I'm going to play it” PeopleNeedsTryingMindLooksPlayCoursesGamesSportsLevelsMorningPositionFootballKeysStrategyGolfRoundsCommunicatePreparationZoneSwingsPinsGolf Course Author:Paul McGinley
“Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.” PeopleKnowsShouldMindCountryTodayPoliticsNamesSportsNumbersMillionsPlayerFootballTvsBasketballLettersBaseballStrategyRadioFollowingChinaCoachesNewspapersTeaSpectators Author:Frank Nugent
“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.” IfsWantMindMadeTwoPlayRememberSportsBoysFootballDoctorsBaseballRaisedBoxesLegsTwo ThingsBoyish Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.” MindKidsYoungDecisionAdviceStageFootballFinancialFocusedAdviserPlaying FootballFinancial Advice Author:Robbie Fowler
“It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.” MindMadePlayGuyStepsGroupsFootballNeededGoing OutStep UpGreat Football Author:Kurt Warner
“I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!” IfsMindBelieveSometimesCareI BelieveFootballMouthsDon't CareOpeningI Don't CareOpening Your Mind Author:Tony Gonzalez
“After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.” TryingMindPersonsDifferentGamesFootballDrinkBeer Author:Jeremy Shockey
“Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.” NeedsGivingMindSoulSpiritFootballPraiseWarmThanksHolidayRelaxationRecreationCozyWatching Football Author:Tony Evans
“I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.” GivingMindTogetherAmericaChanceWrittenMovementFootballCrowdsEnjoyed Author:John Lennon
“I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.” FeelsYearsMindFirstsMomentsSchoolLastsWinningLosesAbilityRecordsSpecialFootballSummerHigh SchoolFirst TimePrisonHatedShockLast YearThrillingAcademyNavalWrestlerVietnameseUndefeatedGood RecordsNaval Academy Author:John McCain
“I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.” MindLittlesTwoHelpingGamesBitsSleepStudyFootballLittle BitHelp MeSneakUnwindMadden Author:Will Poole
“It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.” MindShowsTalentFootballBallsOf My Mind Author:Michael Clayton
“Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.” ThinkingMindKindKidsGamesSportsPlayerFansFootballInvolvedDemandFolksPopulationCoachesIntenseDevotedCult Author:Steve Almond
“I don't mind talking about a football game - that's fine. I don't want Christians to be unnatural. But I do want to hear them talking fully, freely and naturally of the things of the Lord in their own lives too.” WantMindChristianGamesTalkingLordFootballFineUnnaturalFootball Game Author:Mark Dever
“Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.” PeopleMindHas BeensPlayWholeHappensRunningSpeakStarsSportsNumbersGreaterMediaCrimeFootballBehaviorRatePopulationPopsNflScrutinyQuestionableCrime Rates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of tough mind, but tender heart; be tough as a serpent, but tender as a dove." That's who I am and what I do.” MindHeartSaidJesusPlayerFootballToughWho I AmHockeyDoveToughnessSerpentFootball PlayerTender Hearts Author:Mr. T
“I wanted to play football and see how that went. In my mind, I knew I wasn't good enough to be a pro, but I was having a really fun time doing it. When you're on a college team, you can tell who's going to be a pro or not almost instantly.” MindEnoughFunTeamFootballCollegeGood EnoughFun Times Author:Joel McHale
“In the end, the game is the same. Football is still football. Now, they may play with different formations, they may have a different idea of training, but the game doesn't alter. I don't mind how any performer - indeed, why should I? How arrogant of me if I did? - manages to get to what they have to get to. It doesn't matter how you get there, as long as it isn't going to destroy other people on the way.” PeopleMindLongDifferentFootballTrainingManageArrogant Author:John Hurt
“So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.” IfsMindEnoughLastsGoalResultsWeekHavensFootballOne DayNormalSetting GoalsGood Football Author:Jose Mourinho
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.” MindMeanMadeFormStrongSidesMistakeTeamFootballHappeningsResilienceMechanismBounceFootball TeamInspirational TeamStrong MindStrong Minded Author:Gary Neville
“Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.” WorldMindSidesUnitedCitiesSupportFootballConversationEuropeBlueResponseHeritageAsiaCommonplaceManchesterManchester UnitedManchester City Author:Lucy Powell
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.” InspirationalMindBelieveMotivationalSportsFootballTrainingPreparationSoccerMotivational SportsFootballerLiverpoolBest FootballInspiring FootballInspirational FootballSoccer PlayerGreat FootballFootball MotivationMotivational FootballSoccer FootballFootball ClubsInspirational SoccerMotivational SoccerLiverpool FcSoccer MotivationLiverpool FansLiverpool Football ClubSoccer Fans Author:Bill Shankly
“Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.” KnowsShouldMindLooksPlayKnow HowDoubtFootballFameExcuseArguingHallsYardsHall Of FamePro Football Author:Herschel Walker
“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