How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

I don't particularly enjoy watching international football in the way that I used to. It hurts me to say that, but it's true.

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

I went to the darts, went to the football, had a little pint, no airs and graces. I think that's why I had the fan base I had.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

I'm on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.

People wrote so negatively about me, but generally, the people who are familiar with football know my strengths and abilities.

The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

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