All Quotes

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.
‐‐ Drew Busby

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.
‐‐ Charlie Adam

Football's been such a part of my life. It's allowed me to meet so many people and do so many things.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

Football's cruel sometimes.
‐‐ Tim Howard

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.
‐‐ Stuart Pearce

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
‐‐ Alan Shearer

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?
‐‐ David Beckham

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
‐‐ Gabriel Luna

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
‐‐ Bill Shankly

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
‐‐ Sam Hunt

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.
‐‐ Vincent Nichols

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
‐‐ Jimmy Greaves

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
‐‐ Roger Staubach

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.
‐‐ Paul Walker

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

Football will always be my foremost passion.
‐‐ David Ginola

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.
‐‐ Gordon Taylor

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.
‐‐ Gordon Taylor

Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be injured. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.
‐‐ Gordon Taylor

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
‐‐ Johan Cruyff

'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.
‐‐ Miles Teller

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
‐‐ Laura Trott

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
‐‐ Anne Enright

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
‐‐ John Burnside

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
‐‐ Adam Peaty

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
‐‐ Edi Rama

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).
‐‐ Douglas Hofstadter

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
‐‐ Steve Guttenberg

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.
‐‐ Spencer Bachus

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse.
‐‐ Dick Dale

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
‐‐ Barbara Park

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.
‐‐ Clara Hughes

For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
‐‐ George Packer

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
‐‐ Tom McMillan

For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams