#football

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. ↗

— Jimmy Greaves

#becoming #chemical #complicated #football #formula

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#basis #commitment #crap #football #gonna

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' ↗

— Chuck Pagano

#assistants #being #coach #dad #ever

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. ↗

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

#idol #inspiration #soccer #inspirational

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#day #football #get #i #life

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#christianity #football #i #know #nothing

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#fans #football #grew #house #i

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ↗

— Sting

#american football #crash #football #helmets #i