My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

I like to mix it up, so I do Parkour, play football, dance... I am a dancer, essentially.

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

In football, you win as a group, you lose as a group; you divide the credit and the blame.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

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

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

Vialli's absolutely certain that he knows one way or the other whether he'll score or not.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.

They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

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