Best Football Quotes

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down. ~ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass. ~ Sven-Goran Eriksson

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue. ~ Deacon Jones

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma. ~ Deacon Jones

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted. ~ Otto Graham

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

I loved the game. We played because we loved it. ~ Jim Brown

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~ Mike Ditka

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. ~ Brian Clough

I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast. ~ Sid Luckman

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself. ~ Dan Marino

Confidence is a very fragile thing. ~ Joe Montana

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play. ~ Marcus Allen

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor. ~ Bob Lilly

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play! ~ Joe Montana

You can do more, you can always do more. ~ Dan Marino

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have. ~ Dan Marino

I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place. ~ Deacon Jones

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus! ~ Dick Butkus

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise. ~ Johan Cruyff

Those who live in the past are cowards and losers. ~ Mike Ditka

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway. ~ Jim Brown

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets! ~ Ian Holloway

Every football player knows when his time is up. ~ Red Grange

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches. ~ Ronnie Lott

You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it. ~ Deacon Jones

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough. ~ Dick Butkus

Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks? ~ Deacon Jones

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football. ~ Jim Brown

I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen. ~ Gareth Bale

Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short. ~ Dick Butkus

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall. ~ Warren Moon

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me. ~ Craig Johnston

I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best. ~ Alex Ferguson

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas) ~ Sid Luckman

Nobody can make you a loser. ~ Dan Marino

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. ~ J. J. Watt

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports. ~ Marshall Faulk

Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question:

How much do we owe one another?

Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best. ~ Neil Hayes

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself. ~ Troy Aikman

To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together. ~ Marcello Lippi

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~ Woody Hayes

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it? ~ Red Grange

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best ~ Neymar

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me. ~ Tim Tebow

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country. ~ Wayne Rooney

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line. ~ Brett Favre

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on! ~ Delia Smith

We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win. ~ Jochen Zeitz

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. ~ Jerry Rice

I love doing what I do. ~ Wink Martindale

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch. ~ Deacon Jones

I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work. ~ Gordon Gee

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. ~ Terry Bradshaw

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No. ~ Jamie Redknapp

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season. ~ Troy Aikman

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money. ~ Arsene Wenger

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. ~ Heywood Broun

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better. ~ Johan Cruijff

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game. ~ Jerry Rice

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can. ~ Hidetoshi Nakata

We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL. ~ Dan Marino

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy ... there's something about winning a Super Bowl. ~ Terry Bradshaw

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance. ~ Earl Campbell

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it. ~ Marcus Allen

My thing is trying to convince them they can win. ~ Dick Butkus

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does. ~ Otto Graham

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways. ~ Dick Butkus

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity. ~ Jim Brown

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful. ~ Mike Ditka

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game. ~ Michel Patini

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. ~ Roger Staubach

Ride it when you retire. ~ Terry Bradshaw

All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war) ~ Otto Graham

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith. ~ Terry Bradshaw

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh. ~ Deacon Jones

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for. ~ David Beckham

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best. ~ Pablo Francisco

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere. ~ Jermain Defoe

It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world. ~ Freddy Adu

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time. ~ Michel Patini

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. ~ Bob Lilly

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best. ~ Joe Montana

When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on water, for instance - but there's a time and place for fun. Jesus never faltered when it came time to tip over the money stalls or to take his hard walk up the mountain. ~ Deacon Jones

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely. ~ Forrest Gregg

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long. ~ Lamar Alexander

Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning. ~ Isaiah Washington

When it comes to football I think it's vital you always enjoy playing. ~ Jordan Henderson

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time. ~ Michel Patini

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

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway. ~ John Madden

It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it". ~ Nikki Sixx

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. ~ Roger Milla

I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that. ~ Vince Vaughn

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now? ~ Marv Levy

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! ~ Pele

Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion? ~ Gordon Brown

I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet. ~ Dennis Miller

I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has. ~ Lamar Hunt

Adora you're not telling the truth. Go back to your husband and pay gross devotion to your marriage and family. Edochie is an angel. Only agberos would watch football and transfer aggression to their wives, not a captain. ~ S.A. David