Football Players Sad Quotes

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. ~ Terrell Owens

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players. ~ Isco

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on. ~ Peter Landesman

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players. ~ Brian Bosworth

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes. ~ Ruud Gullit

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant. ~ Kevin Keegan

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football! ~ John Madden

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher. ~ Craig Heyward

I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players. ~ Emmanuel Petit

Football players have some bodies! Oh my goodness! ~ Vivica A. Fox

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are. ~ Simone Elkeles

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television. ~ Berti Vogts

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

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull. ~ Steve Sabol

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit? ~ George Archer

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players. ~ Jose Mourinho

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. ~ Gabrielle Union

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it. ~ Chaske Spencer

Football is an art players paint with their feet. ~ Maswood Alam Khan

Football is a sad game. ~ George Best

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players. ~ Jim Brown

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere. ~ Antonio Gates

Never accept limitations. ~ Jake Byrne

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~ Jim Bouton

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football. ~ Brent Musburger

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character. ~ Franz Beckenbauer

Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall. ~ Neil Hayes

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. ~ Ian Shoales

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life. ~ Steve Largent

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players. ~ Stephen Rodrick

It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds. ~ Paul Gigot

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

Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools. ~ Steve Spurrier

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

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

I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears. ~ Rachel Nichols

When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream. ~ Eric Cantona

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time. ~ Khloe Kardashian

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana. ~ Les Miles

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports. ~ Tony Dorsett

As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players. ~ Frank Deford

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex. ~ Johnny Weir

Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C
players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z
players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies. ~ Guy Kawasaki

The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver heartfelt testimonials. You can't play for Ladouceur unless you're willing to stand in front of your teammates and bare your soul. You can't play unless you're willing to cry. ~ Neil Hayes

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game. ~ LaVell Edwards

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people. ~ Tim Tebow

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

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd. ~ Johan Cruijff

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent. ~ Vincent Nichols

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me. ~ Jackie Mason

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do. ~ Reggie Bush

The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team. ~ LaVell Edwards

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. ~ Abby Wambach

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers ~ Tupac Shakur

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players. ~ Pele

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football. ~ Xavi

It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room. ~ Barry Switzer

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me. ~ Bill Walsh

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business. ~ Joe Gibbs

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks. ~ Sergio Aguero

I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man. ~ Kapil Dev

This, for the benefit of those with only a sketchy grasp of football tactics, was a
Dutch invention which necessitated flexibility from all the players on the pitch. Defenders were required to attack, attackers to play in mid-field; it was football's version of post-modernism, and the intellectuals loved it. ~ Nick Hornby

There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa. ~ John Madden

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. ~ Bill Shankly

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

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that. ~ David Beckham

The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense. ~ Ron Noades

Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League. ~ Randy Moss

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that. ~ Larry Coker

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing. ~ Eric Cantona

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players. ~ Johan Cruijff

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses. ~ Glenn Hoddle

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players. ~ Tony Dungy

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical. ~ Sidney Crosby

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate. ~ Alex Ferguson

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. ~ Nick Hornby

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team. ~ Greg Schiano

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns. ~ Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of. ~ Gordon Taylor

By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant. ~ Rene Russo

When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players. ~ Lilian Thuram

Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business. ~ Paddy Chayefsky

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. ~ Joe Namath

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ~ Bob Golic

The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career. ~ Gordon Taylor

When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves. ~ Jim Brown

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. ~ Don Shula

IT IS NOT COINCIDENCE THAT AT BARCELONA WE HAVE LOW-KEY LIFESTYLES AND WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. WE KNOW WE ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND NOT MOVIE STARS. ~ Lionel Messi

I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout. ~ Colin Cooper

The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out. ~ Robert Griffin III

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease. ~ George Will

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well. ~ Alex Ferguson

Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem. ~ Pele

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away. ~ Bill Simmons

People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class. ~ Jonathan Vilma

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. ~ Pete Hamill

I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value. ~ David Pleat

Whenever I see those crmison jerseys and crimson helmets, I feel humbled to have played football for Alabama. Other players in the NFL talk to me about their schools and their traditions. I just smile knowing the immense love Alabama fans have for our school and its football program. I'm proud to be a part of that Crimson Tide heritage. ~ Derrick Thomas