I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.
— Zoe Kravitz
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
— Zinedine Zidane
Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
— Zinedine Zidane
Music was important. Football was the easy part.
— Zinedine Zidane
Messi is the Mozart of football.
— Zinedine Zidane
Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.
— Zinedine Zidane
It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.
— Zinedine Zidane
Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
— Zinedine Zidane
On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
— Zhang Xi
One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.
— Zell Miller
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
— Zakk Wylde
Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.
— Yiyun Li
I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.
— Xavi
If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.
— Xavi
Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
— Xavi
I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
— Xavi
I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you win playing like this it's twice as satisfying. I've always played attacking football: my footballing ideals are very clear and well defined. I've grown up at Barcelona with that style and that's the one I like. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.
— Xavi
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
— Xavi
Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
— Xavi
There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
— Xavi
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
— Xavi
I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barça - and for everyone in football.
— Xavi
I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
— Xavi
I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.
— Wynton Marsalis
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.
— Woody Hayes
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
— Woody Hayes
In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too - make sure they don't beat themselves.
— Woody Hayes
There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
— Woody Hayes
Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.
— Woody Hayes
The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
— Woody Hayes
The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
— Woody Hayes
I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
— Woody Hayes
You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.
— Woody Hayes
I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
— Woody Hayes
No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
— Woody Hayes
The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt-and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.
— Woody Hayes
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
— Wim Crouwel
This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don't talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don't leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.
— Willie McGinest
The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear.
— Willie Mason
It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.
— Willie Mason