Willie Mays Quotes

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

I played football. I was pretty bad at that.

There are many good players, in Italy and abroad.

Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.

I'm nowhere near Barry Sanders. But that doesn't take anything away from my game.

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.

I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.

I really enjoyed my time playing in a Browns uniform.

You can't compare my game with Messi's, Neymar's, or Cristiano Ronaldo's.

I always want to show them I can play football.

Paolo Guerrero is a good player - and Mladen Petric also. I think both are really good and even better than me.

I was a fan like everybody else, even before I got called up for Scotland.

I love what I do, which is to play football.

You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.

I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football.

All the great players are welcome in Paris.

I was an undersized, undertalented defensive back. I knocked myself out multiple times running into people. I ended my career without an anterior cruciate ligament. I still don't have one. At a certain point, you realize: I've used up all I've got.

Ronaldo is an absolutely terrific player. He works very hard for his team; he has the quality.