Haener Football Quotes

Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve. ~ Simon Barnes

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

It is otherwise with sports and the media. There, too, a shift has occurred, from active participation to the vicarious participation of spectatorship. Four people used to go bowling, but 100 million watch the Super Bowl. Football, where men try to hit and hurt, has replaced baseball as the national game. It is as if the demotion from participant to spectatorship and from live spectatorship to TV spectatorship has to be compensated by upping the ante in violence. ~ Walker Percy

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off. ~ George Osborne

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers. ~ Jon Champion

As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air. ~ Joe Montana

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~ George F. Will

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game. ~ Howard Roberts

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart. ~ Eric Cantona

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. ~ Vinnie Jones

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 want to do what I like and that's play football. ~ Royston Drenthe

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio. ~ Frank Lampard

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle. ~ Charles Schwab

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice. ~ Trevor Brooking

He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it's only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses. ~ Tera Lynn Childs

throwing the football. But instead ~ Steve Yarosh

I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night. ~ Jon Gruden

After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night. ~ LaVell Edwards

People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually. ~ Jonathan Woodgate

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. ~ John Heisman

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. ~ Vince Lombardi

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program. ~ Bear Bryant

I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads. ~ Dez Bryant

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things. ~ Vincent Tan

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch. ~ Alan Green

Several Watford supporters disgracefully started leaving the ground, and the Arsenal surprised us by adding another chant to their repertoire – making a total of two chants if my mathematics serves me correctly. 'You might as well go home.' What they don't realise, of course, is that we are home. Watford's not a pretty place, but its home. I live a half-hour walk from Vicarage Road. The chant went up from our end, 'We support our local team,' which always shuts up Premiership supporters from Borehamwood, Radlett and Surrey, no matter which of the top four teams they follow. ~ Karl Wiggins

I spent most of my time there wondering this: is a man who he is, should he be judged by his actions of the past and maybe even the present, or should he be judged by who he wants to become, what he is trying to be? Should a man be judged at all? And who is he judged by? Look out there." Skad motioned out the window, at the high school kids practicing football. I turned my head to watch them. ~ Andersen Prunty

It's a conflict of parallels. ~ Alex Ferguson

To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all. ~ John Elway

My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great. ~ Steve Nash

From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results. ~ Graeme Le Saux

I miss being a mistress. I enjoyed it. I loved it, in fact. I never felt guilty. I pretended I did. I had to, with my married girlfriends, the ones who live in terror of the pert au pair or the pretty, funny girl in the office who can talk about football and spends half her life in the gym. I had to tell them that of course I felt terrible about it, of course I felt bad for his wife, I never meant for any of this to happen, we fell in love, what could we do? The truth is, I never felt bad for Rachel.... She just wasn't real to me, and anyway, I was enjoying myself too much. Being the other woman is a huge turn-on, there's no point denying it: you're the one he can't help but betray his wife for, even though he loves her. That's just how irresistible you are. ~ Paula Hawkins

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football. ~ Michel Patini

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung. ~ Tommy Docherty

Everything I did to get back, if it wasnt for my team, it was for my city. Thats one thing that I bought into from Day One. Im not just here in this city to play football, Im here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love, then so be it. Ill give everything I have, and today was about me giving everything that I had, showing people that no matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. If you can push through it, you will encourage somebody. Today, hopefully through what I did today, somebody was uplifted. ~ Ray Lewis

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with. ~ Brett Favre

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

I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about. ~ Chuck Noll

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England. ~ John Barnes

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best, ~ Jorge Lorenzo

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire. ~ Bear Bryant

We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,' and I thought I'd better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn't belong to, 'want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that's what they want. That's the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.'
'Bollocks,' said Ronnie.
'That, of course, is the other main difference. ~ Hugh Laurie

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

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out. ~ George Hamilton

A holocaust of an afternoon. ~ Carlton Palmer

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. ~ Ian Mortimer

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day. ~ Mo Rocca