Tom Osborne Quotes

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.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

I love football, football is my life.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

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I like to win; I like to compete; I like to sack the quarterback.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

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

Football is a passionate game. It excites us.

I like what I am doing. I enjoy all parts of the game - the team building, training camp, game days, the excitement of Sunday... it beats working.

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

Sometimes football is not just.

Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

For me, football was everything. The love of the ball was everything.

I have been captain for my Delhi team.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

You're only out there for 90 minutes, and you have to give it everything you've got. It's a game of football, at the end of the day.

To me, any time you're playing a Peyton Manning-led football team, there's a challenge - but that's what you dream about growing up as a kid.

We have some great players at Chelsea and the most important is the goal to win.

When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.