Salyards Football Quotes

Fitchett smiled to himself. He loved this bit, when it's about to kick off. Half terror, half ecstasy. The adrenaline surging through him like an electric current. His breathing coming in short gasps and his stomach trying to push its way up through his throat. 'The Buzz' they called it. And they were right. Fitchett was buzzing, this was what it was all about for him. This blast of magic. ~ Dougie Brimson

After Nick rescued Kate from an attack at the football game they talk as he drives her home. "I said that because I really did see a monster." I looked at Nick as we turned a corner in the road. "You don't think I'm crazy do you?"
I like that quote because it symbolizes the transition in Kate's life. She has turned a corner in her life. She unknowingly has left the path of childish freedom and started down a path of danger and responsibility. ~ Karen Tjebben

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team. ~ Phil Jackson

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

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013. ~ Steve Sabol

God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. ~ Neil Gaiman

Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do. ~ David Beckham

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

I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play. ~ Keith Millard

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ~ David Mamet

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select. ~ Tony Dungy

My father was an all-American football player. ~ Edwin Moses

I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that. ~ Randy Moss

Naked children ran about playing leapfrog or football, or towing little toys about on string. ~ Geraldine McCaughrean

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire. ~ Henry Winter

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football. ~ Patrice Motsepe

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work. ~ John Madden

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

Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow. ~ Stephen Hunt

And if that only inflames your curiosity, I say to you, a writer without curiosity is a bird without feathers. ~ Jeff Salyards

There's nothing I'm scared of in football. ~ Thierry Henry

football was a 'slum sport played in slum stadiums watched by slum people'. ~ Anonymous

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different. ~ Trevor Brooking

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop. ~ Jack Youngblood

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. ~ Ed O'Neill

In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact. ~ Pete Gill

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

It's impolite to stare, you know, even at your friends."
"Are we friends?" I asked her. More surprised than anything else.
"I'm helping you with your lesson, aren't I?"
She was. She'd just helped me shrink a football to the size of a marble.
"I thought you were helping me because I'm thick," I said.
"Everyone's thick," she replied. "I'm helping you because I like you. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on. ~ George Clooney

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 he could do one thing, he could run. He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose

The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football.
(on returning to the premiership) ~ Michael Owen

The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season. ~ George M. Gilbert

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video. ~ Harry Redknapp

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score. ~ Arsene Wenger

Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ... ~ Jon Champion

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct. ~ Vicente Del Bosque

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports. ~ Anthony Liccione

I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live. ~ Chris Kluwe

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Football is more important to me than money right now. ~ A. J. Hawk

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year. ~ Walter Payton