Top 200 Football Player Quotes

Xavi has won the Champions League three times, the European Championship twice and the World Cup. He’s a real football player, a man who focuses on his football, hard work and training instead of the glamour, and that is why he has stayed at such a high level for so long.

People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin’ rich football player. That is not the case.

Every kid I’ve been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn’t know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

If you’re a football player, you can play anywhere.

I try to get stronger every year, that’s part of me trying to be better as a football player.

I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.

It’s just what I need to do as a football player, to come in and bring life whenever I’m starting, whenever I’m coming in.

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

At the end of the day I’m a football player. I’m paid to be prepared and people rely on me to get a job done, and I will never jeopardize that or sacrifice any efforts toward that goal.

It’s easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they’re all at home. In basketball, they’re on the road all the time.

How can I be a great football player when you’re not happy with yourself?

This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn’t do it – it was just too weird.

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

I’m going to make a difference in other people’s lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do. But when I was 18, I got into a street fight with this football player. He was a big guy and three years older than me. I really kicked his butt, and I realized I had a talent for this and needed to pursue it.

The bottom line is I’m a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.

I don’t judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It’s a fun career deal, but it’s not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, ‘If you don’t make it, what are you going to do?’ But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, ‘I’m going to become a football player.’

You don’t have to sell the fact that a football player has toughness.

I have never, ever, received any taunts or any form of anti-Semitism. And I suppose being a Jewish football player with the Atlanta Falcons was no different than being a Baptist football player with the Atlanta Falcons. But in the back of your mind, you always expect something to happen.

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is – teacher, violinist, football player – has to be the best. Why not me?

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.

Now that we’re seeing that you can be a really masculine football player and a homosexual, you can be a really girly boy who likes to dress in women’s clothes, I think that it’s just been adding to the whole discussion about homosexuality and society.

A Redskin is a football player.

I hate when people lump me in with kickers that lasted a long time. I have respect for guys like Morten Andersen, but I was a football player, not just a kicker.

We’re dealing with men here. What we’re trying to do is help them become the best players they can be, and we’re all collectively trying to win games. So what I always tell people is that the way you earn these players’ respect is, do you make them a better football player?

Like I’ve always said, there’s a lot that goes into being a football player that isn’t the playbook and being on the field, but having everything worked out in your personal life.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

It was a big change for me not to go into the weight room and train like a football player – I’d been programmed my whole life to go in and make myself stronger so that I could push people around.

As a football player, I don’t play for the individual.

Stan Hansen was a tough-as-nails freshman middle linebacker when I was a senior at West Texas State. He was a damn good football player, but he developed some problems with his knees. When football didn’t work out he asked me about professional wrestling.

I was born in Dortmund and grew up here, so you become automatically a black and yellow. I played here for many years in the youth ranks, but at first I did not have the chance to become a professional football player at BVB and to realize my dream.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp’s coming.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people’s stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I’m not.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Canada welcomed me and my family and I am grateful for the opportunity to realize my dream of being a professional football player and representing Canada on the world stage.

My brain is – essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player’s brain, right?

I’m not a football player 24 hours a day.

My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it’s always hindered me.

I just love sports: basketball, baseball, football. As a kid I did it all. But in my heart, I’m a football player. There’s nothing like it. It’s what I live for. Ever since I could walk, I’ve been drawn to it.

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.

I’ve always gone through adversity in this game, and I’ve always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.

You’re seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you’re still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you’re just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don’t think you’ll prepare.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can’t change them. But I can show them what they’re missing.

I’m a football player playing basketball.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.

When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how to head, be physical. He had everything that a football player needs to have. It’s difficult for someone to achieve what he has in football.