Football Quotes

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

~ Dennis Bergkamp

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

~ Joe Biden

My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

~ Ashton Kutcher

I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference.

~ Serinda Swan

If you're dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don't think I'll still go to the football games.

~ Nicolle Wallace

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

~ Jello Biafra

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

~ Red Grange

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

~ Rio Ferdinand

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

~ H. G. Bissinger

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

~ Stanley Kubrick

When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't take long for the Colts to convert the city and state of Indiana into football evangelists.

~ Peyton Manning

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

~ Tom Dempsey

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

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

~ Ray Lewis

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

~ Peter Mullan

I can retire from football with a smile on my face.

~ John Matuszak

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

~ Gordon Taylor

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

~ Jurgen Klopp

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

~ Peyton Manning

Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.

~ Lionel Messi

It's pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football's later on down the line.

~ Tim Tebow

Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.

~ Josh Mcdaniels

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

~ Knute Rockne

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

~ Jose Mourinho

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

~ Edward Hirsch

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

~ Andrew Motion

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

~ Emmitt Smith

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

~ Joe Greene

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

~ Gabriel Luna

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

~ Roger Milla

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

~ Ryan Giggs

I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.

~ Carson Wentz

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

~ Ronnie O'sullivan

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

~ Shakira

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

~ Diego Costa

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.

~ Thierry Henry