"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."
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25 quotes about Football
Discover inspiring Football quotes from famous authors and thought leaders. Find wisdom and motivation about Football to inspire your life.
Football Quotes
"There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky."
"Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art."
"The other day I went to the Huddle House. I wasn’t hungry, I just wanted to call some plays."
"As a sculptor, I prefer busts. As a lover of women, I prefer busts. And as a football enthusiast, I prefer Robert Griffin III."
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."
"Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes."
"Without football, my life is worth nothing."
"If football players wanted to protect their brains from injury they’d wear astronaut helmets. After all, astronauts have massive IQ’s, so wearing their protective headgear seems like a smart choice."
"The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them."
"I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer."
"You know who’s not money? @JManziel2. Quarterbacks should stay in the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Ask any politician."
"If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not."
"The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter."
"I have a 12:34 representational time dance. I do it at 3:33 every other Tuesday (twice a day). If you’d like to participate in my choreographed dance routine, bring a football helmet and a half empty can of tuna (keeps the stray cats away, because I perform in a gritty, grimy downtown alley)."
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."
"Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy."
"Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage."
"I know the X’s and O’s of football. I just don’t know the other 24 letters. And as a writer, this bothers me."