Football Playing Quotes
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Football Playing Quotes & Sayings
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Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.
— Lee Majors
I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.
— Kurt Warner
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
— Dennis Bergkamp
When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
— Alan Hansen
I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.
— Nathan Kress
When it comes to football I think it's vital you always enjoy playing.
— Jordan Henderson
At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
— Adam Dunn
I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.
— Paul Scholes
If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this
— Peyton Manning
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.
— Alan Shearer
I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.
— Brendan Rodgers
I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.
— Tony Gonzalez
I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
— Jason Gedrick
When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.'
— Junior Seau
If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football
— Theo Walcott
I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
— Channing Tatum
When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
— Sean Harris
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
— Dee Dee Myers
There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.
— Terrell Davis
Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
— Goran Ivanisevic
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.
— Jacoby Ellsbury
When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
— Kenny Chesney
You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.
— Russell Wilson
I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.
— Michael Kiwanuka
Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.
— Geoff Thompson
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
— Bobby Bowden
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
— Luis Figo
It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.
— Kenny Sansom
I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.
— Simeon Rice
I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
— Michael Jackson
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
— Brett Favre
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.
— John Madden
Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.
— Marshall Faulk
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
— Dennis Bergkamp
I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
— Alex Ferguson
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
— Gabriel Luna
Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.
— Ron Greenwood
There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.
— Diego Maradona
I grew up playing football and baseball.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
— Jimmy Connors
Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing
— Alan Green
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
— Bo Jackson
Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.
— John Gregory
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
— Alan Hansen
I have a very strange way of playing football.
— Luis Suarez
No star playing, just football.
— Knute Rockne
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
— Joe Greene
Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
— Luis Suarez
Living life without a GOAL is like playing football without a Goal post. There is no Purpose. Then why play the game of Life?-RVM
— R.v.m.
When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.
— Travie McCoy
There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.
— Robert Griffin III
A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.
— Matt Holliday
We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.
— Bud Grant
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
— John Cale
I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.
— David Beckham
When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
— Bill Fagerbakke
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
— Joe Biden
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
— Wayne Rooney
Naked children ran about playing leapfrog or football, or towing little toys about on string.
— Geraldine McCaughrean
I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.
— Mickey Rourke
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
— Brett Favre
No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.
— David Beckham
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.
— Brian Bosworth
We will go back to playing like Manchester United.
— Ryan Giggs
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
— Eric Cantona
Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.
— Emlyn Hughes
Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
— Wayne Rooney
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
— Josh Hartnett
Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.
— Michael Sam
Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.
— Jerry O'Connell
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
— Alan Shearer
I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.
— Ross Mathews
I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
— Andrea Bocelli
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
— Johan Cruijff
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
— Brian Bosworth
My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
— Madeline Carroll
When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
— Victor Cruz
It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.
(on the 'This Anfield' plaque) — Bill Shankly
(on the 'This Anfield' plaque) — Bill Shankly