Mike Singletary Quotes

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.

For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

I don't if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

When you lose, people don't understand why you play this way or don't pick that player.

Football is not only sunshine.

To go against the Miami Heat is just a blessing. I'm going to go out there and have fun.

Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.

I love football, it's my life.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I hate when the other team has the ball.

I've always felt comfortable, but in football, there are lows.

It's a privilege to be a football manager, even when you've been beaten or you're bottom of the table.

Any given night, I learned it in college, you can lose a game.

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.

All I have ever known is football.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.