When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
In football, if you have a big break after a disappointment you can stew on things, and that hurts you.
I’m probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.
Nothing’s in my head when I’m out there; I’m just trying to have fun on the football pitch.
The World Cup is the biggest stage for football in general.
The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.
Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it’s the No.1 sport; it’s exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.
Some of my friends were gang-affiliated or gang-related, but that was just the way things were. I was lucky because football kept me busy and away from that bad path, to an extent.
People said I’m too big to play football.
I live in Budapest and saw how the football helped the Hungarian people to be happy.
I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.
Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it’s a great team sport, so I don’t get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
This is not a football film. It’s about two individuals – two good friends telling their story.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Super Bowl Sunday is an American holiday at this point. Usually, I’ll have people over, and it’s pretty much just a chill day. Football is on all day.
Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.
Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I’ll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.
I’m a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
The football is different to England, but it is a very high level in China. The Chinese league is growing all the time, the owners of the teams invest a lot of care, they want to win and this makes the league very competitive.
At 15, I was playing with the C team at Reims and I wanted to leave. It’s a difficult age for a kid – I wanted to go out with my mates, party… girls… that happens to everyone. Luckily, my mum told me: ‘You don’t know what you want, it’s football – it’s your dream and it could be a great job.’ She was right.
When you talk about Puyol, you speak of a myth of football.
Football management is about managing people.
Everyone is beatable, many things are possible in football. We have often seen this.
My whole body is a wreck. I’ve injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.
Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You’ll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you run through the forest, through the trees?’ Well, I’ve never seen a tree on a football field.
We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.
Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you’ve arrived… you’ve never arrived in football.
I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.
You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
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.
I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football – teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication – I got it all by being on a team.
There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn’t sure what my future in football was.
If people take a knee, and the National Football League players want to take a knee, they should take a knee at night, every night, and thank God in Heaven Donald J. Trump is president of the United States.
The first thing I do on a Sunday is five hours in front of the TV watching football, football, football. I watch my games back and pick out what didn’t go right and try to make sure it goes well next time.
All my life, I’ve been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
I have seven kids. I want to watch my kids grow up. I want to participate in their activities. There’s a lot I wanted to accomplish beyond football. It all starts with making sure my heart’s healthy.
I’m here to play football.
Football is a game you play with your mind.
I’m not a Packers fan. I just like football. I do respect those guys. You respect great football. I’m a Cowboys fan, or I was a Cowboys fan. You just respect great football.
He who doesn’t love Messi knows nothing about football or about life.
I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy.
That’s what football is about – trying to win it all – and that’s what we’ll try and do.
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it’s not just any second, it’s a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it’s not. In an instant it’s over – you won’t have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment.
My early memories of my dad were taking me to play football when I was six – they are happy ones. They are my favourites.
When you are in a football club, you stick together. That’s the key.
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
Ask me about my football, and not too much else. I just want to be a player among the players.
You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the ‘Special One,’ or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.
I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.
Nobody’s more loyal than me as a football coach, I can tell you that.
I’m just a football player.
There’s not just playing on a Saturday and you receiving your money at the end of the month. There’s so, so much more to football than what people see. My agent told me when I was 15, 16, ‘you can have all the ability in the world but if you’re not mentally strong enough football will swallow you up.’
I’d been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing… speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
I’m not the only guy who doesn’t have an independent wrestling background. You know, I have a football background, but I also have a wrestling one.
It’s a life lesson that translates beyond football. You can share these things with your kids: Work hard, do things the right way and you have a chance.
If people don’t know what a punter is in football, they’re not going to know what a fourth down kicker is, either.
I was always a tomboy. I always wanted to be around the boys, always wanted to play sports – basketball, football, kickball, whatever it was. I was real aggressive. I wanted to be around the bros!
I am 30 years old and you don’t get to play football forever. I feel lucky to be given this opportunity by Shanghai as it is a big club in Asia.
No matter what people say outside of football, we don’t work for money, we work for the love of the game and the money is something that follows.
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.
Football is something I would never give up on, whether I ended up playing professional or in a Sunday league team.
Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
