Football Clubs Quotes

Arsenal play pretty-boy football. Good to watch on the telly, but there's no real grit in their play. ~ Karl Wiggins

AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police. ~ David Bennun

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money. ~ Clive Anderson

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool. ~ Bill Shankly

I love football. I love the aesthetics of football. I love the athleticism of football. I love the movement of the players, the antics of the coaches. I love the dynamism of the fans. I love their passion for their badge and the colour of their team and their country. I love the noise and the buzz and the electricity in the stadium. I love the songs. I love the way the ball moves and then it flows and the way a teams fortune rises and falls through a game and through a season. But what I love about football is that it brings people together across religious divides, geographic divides, political divides. I love the fact that for ninety minutes in a rectangular piece of grass, people can forget hopefully, whatever might be going on in their life, and rejoice in this communal celebration of humanity. The biggest diverse, invasive or pervasive culture that human kinds knows is football and I love the fact that at the altar of football human kind can come worship and celebrate. ~ Andy Harper

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job. ~ Simon Jordan

I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club. ~ David Moyes

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities. ~ Gary Neville

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be. ~ Peter Shilton

It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes. ~ Matthew Engel

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs. ~ Vinnie Jones

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club) ~ Roman Abramovich

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. ~ Franklin Foer

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here. ~ Kenny Dalglish

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards. ~ Bill Shankly

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

It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people. ~ Fergus McCann

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings. ~ Eamon Dunphy

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football. ~ Gerard Houllier

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy. ~ Simon Kuper

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy. ~ Roman Abramovich

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

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes. ~ Brian Clough

Arsenal will always have a place in my heart and that is the same for so many other people too. There's a strong sense of 'family' at the Club and it is why those people that leave so often find their way back, to be around that feeling and I believe that even when you go a bit of you never leaves Arsenal anyway, that is how it has been for me. I'm just so glad that I've been able to be part of the story of the football club. ~ Thierry Henry

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans ~ David Moyes

I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward. ~ James Hird

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide. ~ Simon Barnes

That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other. ~ Ron Noades

Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries. ~ Xavi

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn. ~ Lawrence Taylor

I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool. ~ Peter Crouch

When did you become a woman?"-Hatori
How dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times ... "-Yuki
GASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean ... " fan club girls
NO! He's my doctor ... "Yuki ~ Natsuki Takaya

The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure. ~ George M. Gilbert

We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football. ~ Bud Grant

The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money. ~ Johnathan Joseph

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me. ~ Eric Cantona

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation. ~ Tony Dungy

Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club. ~ Arjen Robben

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it. ~ Billy Crystal

What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football? ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

Music was important. Football was the easy part. ~ Zinedine Zidane

Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football. ~ Berti Vogts

Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me. ~ Margaret Cho

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop. ~ George M. Gilbert

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. ~ Bob Ufer

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football. ~ Bobby Bowden

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. ~ Bo Jackson

School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me ... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work. ~ Emmitt Smith

The feeling made him wonder what he would have become if only he'd been allowed to live a normal life. Sports, he knew, would've suited him. He was bigger, stronger and much faster than most boys his age. Football was probably the game for him. He liked watching Joshua playing at quarterback, imagining what it would be like to be in his position. To hear the crowd cheering as he made a pass, to feel accepted by his teammates – they were experiences forever denied him. It was nice to daydream though. ~ Phillip W. Simpson

I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white. ~ J. B. Smoove

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside ... a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver. ~ George Allen

Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there. ~ Bill Parcells

I've grown up watching football my whole life. ~ Marisa Miller

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them. ~ Brendan Rodgers

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football. ~ Jose Mourinho

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football. ~ Mario Balotelli

As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me. ~ Justin Tuck

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal. ~ Joe Royle

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both. ~ Martin McGuinness

I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it. ~ Drew Brees

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven. ~ Bear Bryant

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

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with. ~ Andrea Bocelli

I don't care about the clubs, I don't care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads. ~ Spencer Pratt

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad. ~ Ian Holloway

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

No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the ... where's he gone again? ~ Steve Bruce

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear ~ George Hamilton

More often, I'd meet people like Brett Favre. Not literally like Brett Favre, in the sense that they were forty-year-old football players, but that they were people who loved Wisconsin but couldn't find a way to make it work there, took off for NewYork, crashed and burned, and then found a home for themselves here in the City of Lakes. Minneapolis is where the drama queens and burnouts and weirdos and misfits of the rural and suburban Upper Midwest wind up. It's a city full of people who, though they'd never say it, secretly suspect they don't belong here, that they're not Minneapolis enough, because they didn't go to a city high school, or because they didn't hang out at First Avenue when they were teenagers, or because they came from the suburbs, or from outstate.They came from the Iron Range or Fargo–Moorhead or Bloomington or White Bear Lake or Collegeville, or from Chicago or California or the Pacific Northwest or Mexico or Somalia. Wherever they came from, Minneapolis is their home now, and it belongs to them. It belongs to us. ~ Andy Sturdevant