Football Business Quotes

You never judge a person if they're going through their downs because you always stick with them when they're going through their ups. If you stay in football business long enough, you're going to have some bad games and you're going to have some bad seasons.

The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.

I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.

I don't mind women's football. I am of the business understanding though, when people say 'it should be equal pay.' If the business makes sense, it does.

You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.

The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.

I am not a mercenary. Milan was my home. They made a good deal, though. They signed me for 10 million euros and sold me for 42 million euros.

It's not only the things I want, football is a business and you know how it works.

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Whenever a fellow coach is sacked it is not good for any of us - it hurts. You just have to accept it because it is part of the game.

I highly appreciate the work of Ed Woodward, the CEO of Manchester United.

I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to be in an NFL office.

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

Frankly, I loved playing there. The Americans are incomparable for the sport's business, and they're beginning to truly love football.

I think there's a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.

There is a lot going on with negotiations in the football business, and I appreciate some people think that it's a crazy, absurd amount of money.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

Players should get the best deals for themselves whenever they can. Football is a relatively short career.

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.