#football

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#basketball #been #football #individual #polo

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#soccer #experience

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#football #franchise #i #nfl #own

And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ads #campaign #did #enough #football

Every football player knows when his time is up. ↗

— Red Grange

#every #football #football player #his #knows

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#alcoholic #becomes #body #england #english

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#denying #football #game #hard #out

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#each #eight #football #game #need

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#football #high #high school #how #i

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i