Quotes and Sayings about Referees

Hey, ref, check your voicemail! I think you've missed a few calls!

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 9

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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch

Quotes about Football/Soccer Falling in love

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Sepp Blatter

Quotes about Football/Soccer FIFA Association

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Sepp Blatter

Quotes about Football/Soccer

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Johan Cruyff

Quotes about Football/Soccer

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Quotes about Football/Soccer

As the new season dawns, new stars will rise, new teams will captivate, new stadiums will rock, new challenges will emerge, new battles will be fought. In the name of glory, in the name of honor, in the name of football, the game we love, the game we live for.

FIFA - 14

Quotes about Football/Soccer

My opinion is that individual awards are unnecessary in a team sport. No single player would have won anything on their own.

Toni Kroos - Oktober 2023

Quotes about Football/Soccer Teams

In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field.

Kevin De Bruyne

Quotes about Football/Soccer

Football is about friendship aswell, it's not about sports only, it's not about business.

Aleksander Čeferin (as UEFA President) - October 2021

Quotes about Football/Soccer

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

Pep Guardiola

Quotes about Football/Soccer

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

Louis van Gaal

Quotes about Football/Soccer

If the teams with the best players always won, football would be boring.

Luis Enrique

Quotes about Football/Soccer

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who is scoring and who is not scoring. It's about winning games.

Christian Eriksen

Quotes about Football/Soccer

Playing football for three years is a long time - playing at Real Madrid for three years is even longer.

Toni Kroos - May 2020

Quotes about Football/Soccer Real Madrid

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Carlo Ancelotti

Quotes about Football/Soccer

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

Carlo Ancelotti

Quotes about Football/Soccer

In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.

Robinho

Quotes about Football/Soccer Minutes

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

Xabi Alonso

Quotes about Football/Soccer

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Ken Carter in Coach Carter

Basketball Sports

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

Bill Belichick

Talent Sports

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Louis Zamperini

Giving Up Sports Motivation

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sports

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Yao Ming

Sports Communication

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

Aoi Asahina in Danganronpa

Sports

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

Skylar in The In Between

Ambition Sports

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

Markus Rühl

Sports

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

Herm Edwards

Sports

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

Marv Levy

Sports

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Walter Payton

Sports

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

Ann Perkins in Parks and Recreation - Season 4 Episode 7

Sports Jogging

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

Ryan Reynolds

Sports

When you read biographies of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Pete Sampras or Roger Federer, you will often stumble upon the word "humility".

Thomas Tuchel

Michael Jordan Tiger Woods Pete Sampras Roger Federer Humility Sports

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

Virender Sehwag

Sports

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Emil Zatopek

Sports

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

Urvashi Rautela

Sports Motivation

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Derek Jeter

Sports Motivation

It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 3

Breakup Beginning

If you're looking for the word that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it's love!

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 17

Love

Kids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 23

Memories Past

Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 17

Barney: "Our wedding is gonna be legendary."
Robin: "No wait for it?"
Barney: "I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore."

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 1

Love declerations

Underneath all of those lies is one true thing. One true thing that can support the weight of all the lies in the world, and that's the fact that I love you.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 18

Love declerations

Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 7

Friendship Relationships

Marshall: "It's kind of a big, professional meeting. You might want to trade out that lollipop for a shirt."
Ted: "Yeah. I'll just give it to one of these kids."
Marshall: "Oh, buddy. You're half naked, you're not a parent to any of these children. Don't offer 'em candy!"

Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 9

Being naked

Your heart's talking to you, Barney. Do you have the guts to listen to it?

Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 18

Quinn: "In the event of divorce, Miss Garvey shall get full custody of Mr. Stinson's suits."
Barney: "Why? What would you do with them?"
Quinn: "Nothing. I'd just sit around and watch them go out of style."

Quinn Garvey in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 2

Suits

Ted: "Robin and I already had our backslide. Last Thanksgiving, not even that long ago."
Stella: "Did you place a large bet against yourself?"

Stella Zinman in How I Met Your Mother - Season 4 Episode 5

Barney: "You avoiding the family too?"
James: "I'm gay, I'm black and I'm getting a divorce. Those walking skeletons are gonna have more questions for me than their pharmacists."

James Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 3

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Divorce

The baby slide right out, huh? It's like a 'whoosh', like a waterslide. [Lily screaming] Slightly painful waterslide.

Dr. Sonya in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 23

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