The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.

Leo Messi is a little football God. I love playing alongside him. We understand each other without needing to talk.

People should be able to express themselves without feeling threatened. That is true in football, but also in life.

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.

There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.

Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Outside of football and training, I am somewhat of a homebody. Love hangin' out with my siblings and close friends.

I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.

Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Bottom line is I always want what's best for the team, and as long as the football team is winning games, I'm happy.

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.

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