#Football Quotes

“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.”

“Gentlemen, this is the football.”

“In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.”

“[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.”

“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.”

“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”

“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”

“Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting”

“Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.”

“To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.”

“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

“Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”

“I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.”

“If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.”

“Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.”

“Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.”

“The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.”

“The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.”

“In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.”

“If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.”

“I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.”

“I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.”

“The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.”

“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.”

“There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .”

“We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?”

“International football is the continuation of war by other means.”

“Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times”

“There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.”

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

“Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.”

“Cristiano Ronaldo was my hero.”

“I just want to convert and create chances as well.”

“Football is always a challenge between us to play in the games, to face different challenges as well.”

“When I was young I was playing in midfield on the left for Gondomar in a 4-3-3. I was always the number eight playing to the left. So I always used my left foot because it was required. I don't know, I just feel that I do certain things better with the left foot.”

“Of course Harry Maguire has qualities but our job is to try and get past him.”

“If the objective is to score goals in the football game, that's what I want to do.”

“Everyone dreams of England, and the Premier League.”

“Football has always been my passion.”

“I do not consider myself the best dribbler. You can look at that statistically.”

“I think football without fans is strange.”

“In terms of me scoring or providing or dragging defenders, if that's the target, that's what I want to do.”

“The Championship is one of the hardest competitions, there are many games, but being kicked helped me to grow up as a player.”

“It's special to have the Kop sing my name.”

“Playing a Europa League game behind closed doors was very strange.”

“I remember when I was maybe around six years old, my dad signed me up for swimming. I'd ask him, crying, whether I could switch to play football instead because it was on at the same time.”

“As a striker, I always want to be involved in goals.”

“Hopefully I can be on the scoresheet often and that's what I want: to help the team and score goals so we can win football matches.”

“Anyone who scores a goal will get confidence from it, particularly if you are a striker because you live for goals and assists.”

“I'd much rather be playing football than be in the swimming pool.”