Thuds Football Quotes

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil. ~ Barry Davies

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that. ~ Michael Vick

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

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that. ~ Keith Allen

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect. ~ Danny McBride

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them? ~ Roy Keane

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

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour. ~ John Motson

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~ John Fowles

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson. ~ Gordon Strachan

An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson. ~ Pete Hamill

I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?"
"A long time ago."
"That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life ... my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win ... " She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen. ~ Simone Elkeles

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it. ~ Joe Hart

That secondary provides worse coverage than a Guatemalan HMO. ~ Dennis Miller

Great striking partnerships come in pairs. ~ Nigel Spackman

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free. ~ Edward Smith

People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before. ~ Henry Blodget

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say. ~ Knute Rockne

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

It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me. ~ Doug Flutie

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

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

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

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

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball. ~ Sven-Goran Eriksson

Thank you ... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. ~ Jimmy Fallon

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game. ~ Nick Saban

And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside ~ Michael Lewis

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least. ~ Xavi

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Their football team moved like some kind of machine, perfect and well-oiled. Their cheerleaders were like springs, bouncing and flipping and woo-wooing with their perfect bodies, perfect cheers, and perfect...pom-poms. ~ S.L. Naeole

Bridget felt like she'd been sucked into a game of Clue. Delaney did it. In the football field. With an iron bar. Again, she had to force the words to die on her tongue. ~ Samantha Blake

Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field. ~ Reggie Bush

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated. ~ Kyle Chandler

Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love. ~ Richard Keys

The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath. ~ Terry Butcher

I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'. ~ Jose Mourinho

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence. Unlike the last (male) head of the International Monetary Fund, the current (female) head is not going to assault an employee at a luxury hotel; top-ranking female officers in the US military, unlike their male counterparts, are not accused of any sexual assaults; and young female athletes, unlike those male football players in Steubenville, aren't likely to urinate on unconscious boys, let alone violate them and boast about it in YouTube videos and Twitter feeds. No female bus riders in India have ganged up to sexually assault a man so badly he dies of his injuries, nor are marauding packs of women terrorizing men in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and there's no maternal equivalent to the 11 percent of rapes that are by fathers or stepfathers. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Some people
Samad for example
will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"
football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds
but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals. ~ Zadie Smith

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