I always wanted to become a football player, and I thank my parents, as they helped me so much to realise this dream. They always supported me on my path. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people. – Gordon Strachan
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. – Hillary Clinton
London is really nice, and I’m really happy here, but, of course, I’ve moved here to play football and not just to be in the city. – Granit Xhaka
I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist. – Gene Pitney
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody’s scared of. – Gordon Taylor
Watching all the football over the weekend – and having to wait until Monday night to play – gets you ready, gets you firing. – Harry Kane
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic. – Gordon Strachan
I’m working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn’t possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I’ve tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there’s nothing going on with football. – Gregg Easterbrook
Why can’t a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can’t I be a teacher? Why can’t I be a football coach? Why can’t I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can’t do. So just give us a chance. – Grizz Chapman
While American football is very structured and linear and static – where everyone lines up, and there’s a burst, and it happens – soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game. – Gabriel Luna
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan – and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it. – Hunter S. Thompson
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
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women’s football in the States is a bit idyllic. – Hope Solo
If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they’ll have to wait until I’m out of a job. – Glenn Hoddle
Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I’ve had little interest in them any more. I thought that was a disaster and a disgrace when they did that, but they did it anyway. So I’ve lost interest them and I don’t care what they do anymore. – Gib Lewis
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me – nobody, like the football coach. – Harry Mathews
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don’t dream about being a professional football player or an actor. – Herschel Walker
Honestly, I was only rested in rugby football; all my friends were boys, and I definitely didn’t want to go on stage, but I just did it to keep everyone happy. I did some singing, dancing like they liked, but it wasn’t my thing at all. – Georgia Groome
Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play. – Granit Xhaka
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it. – H. G. Bissinger
It really doesn’t matter to me whether it’s defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I’ve been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix. – Gaines Adams
If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I’m always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I’m really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now – but you’ll never catch me being boring. – Harry Shum, Jr.
In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age. – Harry Kane
