Football Quotes

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.
Matthew Fox

Life, Through, College

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.
Reed Hastings

Different, Country, Pretty

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Love, Play, Games

Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.
Gordon Strachan

Nice, Down, Moment

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman

Small, Died, Boy

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
Robert Mondavi

Else, Wanted, Whether

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
Terrell Owens

Sports, Players, Compared

I don't have to play football.
Terrell Owens

God blessed me to play football.
Terrell Owens

God, Blessed, Play

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
Terrell Owens

Game, Point, Whether

There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.
Terrell Owens

Business, Game, Through

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Charles Spalding

Wisdom, Else, Talk

Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.
John Hodgman

Understand, Rules, Head

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
Zakk Wylde

Music, Playing, Played

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
James Cameron

Good, Standards, Gifted

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Life, Change, Good

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
Harry Mathews

School, Remember, Study

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Leigh Steinberg

Age, Future, Player

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
Leigh Steinberg

Basketball, Later, Fan

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
Leigh Steinberg

Time, Before, Team

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.
Leigh Steinberg

Team, Whole, Kids

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
Leigh Steinberg

Able, Few, Seen

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Lionel Messi

Nothing, Mean, Talent

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
Lionel Messi

Life, Family, Everything

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
Roland Joffe

Nothing, Wrong, Whole

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
Anne Campbell

Money, Hope, Important

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
John Thorn

Game, Basketball, Play

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.
Emmitt Smith

Around, Talent, Talented

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.
Emmitt Smith

End, Getting, Move

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.
Emmitt Smith

Trust, Old, Start

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