Steve Sabol Quotes

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Arsenal fans are real lovers of the game. They don't miss anything in the stadium and are there for the team and the individual players. I have to admit I love banners like 'We don't need Batman, we've got Robin' and stuff like that.

When people are booing at the stadium when they win, then it has nothing to do with the results. It is something to do with emotion and feelings, which is an important part of football. The relationship there has nothing to do with results.

I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.

Football is losing its essence: people talk about celebrations instead of goals.

Supporters pay a lot of money, they do. And sport is beautiful in many ways, because it attracts people from far and wide.

NXT is the top roster in the world as far as I'm concerned, the work ethic and fans.

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

That's what is cool about football: you build life-long relationships.

You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team.

That's something I loved growing up - the other team yelling, hyped, student section, all of that gets me going.

People don't want to just root for a team anymore. They want to root for something more.

I just like going against the Redskins, I guess.

People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.

For me, it's important to perform in my club and with the national team as well.

Every time I'm on the court, every time a fan cheers for me, I just want to go out and make a play for them to cheer even more.

There's always competition in the national team.

The fans want a nice game, and when not everything goes so well, they have every right to boo.

I am a Cleveland Brown. I am proud and happy about that.