football quotes

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.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I’m really a normal football manager.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

Football is all about fans.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

I idolised IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.