- Nov 07, 2020
Football Quotes
Reflections from the field, the sideline, and the stands.
This set of football quotes draws on players describing what the game demanded of them, from proving doubters wrong despite their size to naming the skills that earned them a nickname. A few speak plainly about football being central to who they are, not just a pastime. For more on the people who play it, see our Football Players quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know too well how much I am going to miss football after my career for me to put up my own barriers.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Champions League is massive for a football player. There is nothing above it when you're playing for a club.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have faith in your own qualities; that is part of being a footballer: being strong in your head. That is more than half of the quality you need to be a football player.
- Fighting
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
- Everything
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At Porto, under Jose Mourinho, we won everything with a fantastic group of football players. Mourinho built that. He made us succeed, won everything. This has a big impact.
- First
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The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've seen some players dying from playing football, and the questions are why can't the medical team stop it from happening.
- High
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Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.
- Finances
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Being sporty at heart, I've wanted to learn football since I was a child. But I never got the chance because, growing up, my family didn't have the finances for extra-curricular activities.
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I can say for a fact, football is definitely my sport, and I can't wait to show the world what I can do.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My position in football was cornerback, and what your job is as a cornerback is to read the person that's in front of you - read their body language and anticipate what's going to happen next.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020