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In football, I have learned to forget the past, think about the present, and the future will come as it may - thinking about it would be a mistake.
Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.
I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.
Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.
I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.
Why do you hang out with him?" "We're teammates." Ahhh. And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one's veins.
When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.
In Uruguay, there is a football pitch every hundred metres, whether it is made by grass, small stones, or sand. This has been my football education.
If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
European football games or evening games seem to take a lot more out of you because you don't sleep that night. And as you get older, it gets worse.
Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet.
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'
First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.
It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.
Norway has a great history of women's football, but it's harder now. We've stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken us.
I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.
We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.
I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.
Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted.
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.
You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.
The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
I'd call myself a street footballer, that's where I learned my tricks, and through football I looked at the big players, I think it really helped me.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.
The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.
I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in foreign. I knew they were saying "Blah, blah, blah, le bastard manager..."
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.
I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.
I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.