Football Quotes
All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
- Mitchell Thomas
My name is usually the one on the end of people’s lips.
- Ian Wright
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
- Phyllis Diller
I never predict anything, and I never will.
- Paul Gascoigne
I can’t promise anything, but I promise 100%.
- Paul Power
Winning doesn’t really matter as long as you win.
- Vinny Jones
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck
The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.
- Graeme Saux
I’d like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.
- Mark Draper
My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
- David Beckham
I’d rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
- Johnny Giles
She (Eileen Drewery) gives the players a shoulder to talk to.
- Neil Webb
The boss keeps those things up his sleeve, close to his chest.
- Craig Burley
Just remember the words of Patrick Henry Kill me or let me live.
- Bill Peterson
He’s one of those managers you’d give your left leg to play for.
- Colin Cooper
I’m not convinced that Scotland will play a typically English game.
- Gareth Southgate
I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.
- Jerry Rice
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
If there wasn’t such a thing as football we’d all be frustrated footballers.
- Mick Lyons
He (Steve Walsh) is the type of player who will follow you to every end of the box.
- Kerry Dixon
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve played in that fixture. Each one was a memorable occasion.
- Trevor Steven
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.
- Eric Morecambe
Football’s not like an electric light – you can’t just flick the button and change from slow to quick.
- John Greig
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
- Dan Birdwell
The way you get better at playing football is to play football.
- Gene Brodie
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
- Vince Lombardi
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
- George Will
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard
Most football teams are temperamental. That’s 90% temper and 10% mental.
- Doug Plank
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
- Knute Rockne
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
- Darrell Royal
Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
- Paul Brown
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
- Jean Paul Sartre
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
- Tom Landry
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford


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