When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.

Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

I know what I'm capable of doing. I just want to stay fit and healthy and let my football take care of itself.

For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

I think every footballer, after 20 years playing football, the first thing that comes to your mind is to relax.

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

I think the best part of being gay is when you're done [with sex], you could turn over and talk about football.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

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

Football is football but life is life. I am so happy at being a father and reaching the Champions League final.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

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