Football Quotes And Sayings From Various Personalities

by allinspiration.com

“I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and ‘Monday Night Football.’ Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.”
– Jordin Sparks

“I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.”
– Jordin Sparks

“And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.”
– Jose Mourinho

“Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.”
– Jose Mourinho

“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”
– Jose Mourinho

“Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.”
– Jose Mourinho

“I think the best place to work in football is England.”
– Jose Mourinho

“So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.”
– Jose Mourinho

“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.”
– Jose Mourinho

“You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don’t say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.”
– Jose Mourinho

“I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don’t want a girl who’s too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I’m saying.”
– Josh Hutcherson

“Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I’ll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.”
– Junior Seau

“I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the ‘permanent quarterback.’ I didn’t know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.”
– Junior Seau

“Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.”
– Kenny Chesney

“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.”
– Knute Rockne

“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.”
– Lebron James

“The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.”
– Lewis Grizzard

“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.”
– Lionel Messi

“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.”
– Lucy Powell

“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs – it doesn’t really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It’s something that makes you feel – ‘I can do this stuff’.”
– Michael Morpurgo

“I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.”
– Michael Sheen

“It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I don’t play fantasy baseball anymore now because it’s too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I’m pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.”
– Nate Silver

“As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.”
– Nick Ferguson

“Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn’t even have a football team.”
– Norah Jones

“I love football and it’s the sport I would really like to play. I’ve said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.”
– Novak Djokovic

“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.”
– Novak Djokovic

“Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.”
– Oliver Reed

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

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