Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

The amount of TV exposure we have had and the attention women's football has got has been brilliant.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

There's always been a snobby dismissal of football and the emotions it elicits in millions of people.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

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

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

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