I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

I have my life. I have my values. And compared with much of society, especially football, that is radical.

No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.

Players should get the best deals for themselves whenever they can. Football is a relatively short career.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.

I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.

I owe everything to this football. But I'm proud of what I've made of the opportunity to become a trainer.

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other.

If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.

The jobs of manager and director of football are too big for one individual - this I realised very quickly.

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

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