Quotes on Football

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.

I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.