Football Quotes

“You have to be tough to be a right-back.”

“To be a great player, you have to be a bit of a bastard.”

“There is no racism in football, but there are some idiots.”

“The World Cup is a very important thing. I know, I played in three.”

“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!”

“He's a Trojan, a warrior... and he's not the worst looking lad in the world is he?”

“The pressure is on every single game at Liverpool. It's something you get used to.”

“Homophobia is the last taboo in football.”

“Our team is a family. We are brothers. We love each other.”

“We have to do a better job of protecting the football.”

“Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.”

“For me, the first 45 minutes of the first half are always the most important.”

“But I have to say that the best save I ever made was from a penalty kick against Geoff Hurst.”

“Playing for your country is the greatest honour a player can have.”

“When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.”

“The whole point of football is to score goals. Goals are to football what a punchline is to a joke. The rest is just build-up.”

“Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.”

“I love the game of football. I love being a part of it.”

“I wanted to be the best linebacker in the history of college football.”

“You can't be a Chicago Bear and not be tough.”