Televised Football Quotes

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

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now. ~ Victor Cruz

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

The game must have been past my bed-time. ~ Theo Walcott

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football. ~ Kevin Keegan

We made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away ~ Conor Oberst

If I don't say it enough, Jean-Claude, I love you, I love seeing your face across the table while we eat, and watching you root at Cynric's football games, and watching you read bedtime stories to Matthew when he stays with us, and a thousand surprising things, all of it, its you, and I love you."
"You will make me cry."
"A smart friend told me that it's okay to cry, sometimes you're so happy it spills out your eyes. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be. ~ Stephen Fry

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice. ~ Wayne Rooney

After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~ Aesop

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands. ~ Diego Maradona

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

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone. ~ Tony Dungy

It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle ... But I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred. ~ Steve Coppell

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. ~ Pele

Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he? ~ James Anderson

My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself. ~ Bill Cosby

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line. ~ Joe Greene

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

To be perfectly honest, if I had my way women wouldn't even be allowed inside grounds, and I certainly believe that if a ground is sold out and a male of the species is locked outside, someone should go in, grab the nearest female and throw her out so that the bloke can have her seat. ~ Dougie Brimson

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese. ~ Pele

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game. ~ Johan Cruijff

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know. ~ Michael Owen

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger. ~ Jimmy Armfield

Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out. ~ J. R. Martinez

I fought as a kid. But football is what kept me out of trouble. You could always fight, whether you're in trouble or not ~ Brandon Jacobs

The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself. ~ Louis C.K.

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers. ~ Graeme Souness

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! ~ Ivan Slavkov

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport ~ Duffy Daugherty

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

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers. ~ Zev Yaroslavsky

I didn't answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness. ~ Kimberly Novosel

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them. ~ Paul Merson

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. ~ Pete Gill

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football. ~ Jim Harbaugh

Every girl who has dated a football player ... They all have sex the same way. ~ Kim Kardashian

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do. ~ Johnny Manziel

Speaking of tongues, they are the main reason I'm a nervous wreck. Ryan is a senior and well, sadly, I'm not all that experienced with boys. I mean, I'm a freshman and have been to dances with boys my age and even have gone out with boys, but I've never really kissed them. Not like I hope to kiss Ryan anyway. Bobby Robinson did shove his tongue into my mouth one time, when we were kissing under the bleachers at a football game, but it didn't feel so good. I'm pretty sure he didn't have it exactly right. So I talked to my friends, Katie and Lisa, about how to properly make out. But, well, here is just a bit of their unhelpful advice.
Just let him take the lead, do what ever he does.
Um, couldn't that get me into a lot of trouble?
Just sort of kiss his tongue, but try not to drool.
Don't open your mouth too wide.
And then, just open your mouth wide.
See?
Stupid, conflicting information.
And this from girls who supposedly know how to do this!
I feel like I'm an undercover CIA agent trying to wrestle vital information out of a ruthless double agent, and the fate of the free world depends upon it. All the while, the President is yelling at me in a panic, saying, Somebody! Anybody! Just get me the truth! ~ Jillian Dodd

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me. ~ Guus Hiddink

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play. ~ Jevon Kearse