Football Matches Quotes

“[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.”

— John Sutherland

“If you're a boy, any display of sensitivity is gay. Compassion is gay. Crying is supergay. Reading is usually gay. Certain songs and types of music are gay. 'Enola Gay' would certainly be thought gay. Love songs are gay. Love itself is incredibly gay, as are any other heartfelt emotions. Singing is gay, but chanting is not gay. Wanking contests are not gay. Neither is all-male cuddling during specially designated periods in football matches, or communal bathing thereafter. (I didn't invent the rules of gay - I'm just telling you what they are.)”

— Gavin Extence

“My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.”

— Stanislas Wawrinka

“Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.”

— Jose Mourinho

“I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.”

— Jose Carreras

“I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.”

— Tristan MacManus

“For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.”

— Joe Greene

“I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it ... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.”

— Noel Gallagher

“I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.”

— Colum McCann

“The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.”

— Gary Lineker

“When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches.”

— Douglas Adams

“Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind”

— Roy Keane

“Everyone thinks footballers have it easy and at this time of year see loads of pictures of players relaxing on beaches and in bars but what they don't see is most of them will be doing their own fitness regimes. If you don't you will get back and you will be off the pace, might get injured and won't play football matches.”

— Colin Kazim-Richards

“I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!”

— Kevin Keegan

“My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.”

— Chris Hardwick