The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

I just want to say that aside from Atlanta United, any national team gives you a little bit more free time. I don't want to get completely into the analysis. There are different responsibilities...

I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions...

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

January's an incredibly difficult window to recruit in, especially when your league position's difficult.

As long as somebody is making sacks, I'm happy.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

You know when you play in Leverkusen it is always a difficult game.

Every time you step in the stadium on Sunday, you're facing a good team. This is the NFL.

There tends to be a misguided, populist view about what makes a good goalkeeper. It is not just about making great saves; what Van der Sar brings to Man United's game is not just shot stopping, but...

When it's football season, I'm all football.

The Miracle of Istanbul was the most amazing game I'd ever seen - and long before the end I'd decided Liverpool would be my team.

I'm very happy to have won three big titles with Chelsea in a short time.

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I think Italy-England is always a huge match.

You can't score if you're turning it over. It's like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you're not scoring points. That's not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions,...

I've written on football at the Guardian, American football, obviously. I've also written on weather at The Guardian.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about....

Jeeves, I said. A rummy communication has arrived. From Mr. Glossop.Indeed, sir?I will read it to you. Handed in at Upper Bleaching. Message runs as follows:When you come tomorrow, bring my football...

The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing: 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don't care.' In fact I have always felt that the song is a little...

I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will,...

Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only...