Playing Football Quotes

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
- Burt Bacharach

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.
- David Beckham

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
- Dennis Bergkamp

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
- Brian Bosworth

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.
- Dean Cain

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
- John Cale

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
- Eric Cantona

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
- Eric Cantona

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
- Kenny Chesney

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.
- Hillary Clinton

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.
- Terrell Davis

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.
- Michael East

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
- Brett Favre

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
- Fred Frith

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
- Rickey Henderson

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
- Goran Ivanisevic

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.
- Ronnie Lott

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.
- Diego Maradona

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
- Roger Milla

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
- Chad Michael Murray

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
- Dee Dee Myers

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
- Parminder Nagra

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
- Ed Oneill

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.
- Jerry Rice

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
- Wayne Rooney

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
- Alan Shearer

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!
- Michael Strahan