Quotes of: Footballers Keyword

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

Jose Mourinho

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Alan Davies

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

David Beckham

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

Dhani Jones

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Gregg Easterbrook

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Gordon Taylor

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

Karisma Kapoor

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

Stanislas Wawrinka

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Vicente del Bosque

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

Madeline Carroll

My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.

Mark Lawrenson

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

Rod Stewart

I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.

Torrey Smith

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

Wynton Marsalis

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

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

Alice Dreger

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

Alex Ferguson

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

Alan Hansen

I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

Alexander Hanson