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I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.
Oct 1, 2025
I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.
I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.
So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.
They whipped us like a tied up goat.
Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.
If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.
Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
No, but you can see it from here.
You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.
I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.
They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
I'm an ardent American Football fan.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
When you win, nothing hurts.
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"
Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.