For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.
Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.
Everton have a healthy list of injuries.
I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.
My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.
Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!
When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do. ' Haneke gave me this solution.
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.
What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.
It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.
