Football Popularity Quotes

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.

I can see that the UAE is growing a lot as a football country, and there is plenty of opportunity to keep going and improve.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.

If you are a top player in England, the cult around you is bigger than in Germany.

Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

United are more popular around the world. There is a difference and I can see that. Bayern Munich is a big club but United are bigger. When we [Bayern] were in China people knew us but Bayern were not so big in America.

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

Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Since the World Cup in 2015, we've all experienced an increase in the interest in women's football, which has led to more and more fans supporting the team.

The Premier League is the place to be.

The power which football has is enormous. Football moves the masses.

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

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.

Look at the English league. Everyone down there backs it. That's why it's so highly spoken of. If Scottish football can do that, it will make it a lot more appealing to some fans who are maybe not coming.

Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

There is a risk women's football becomes the most popular spectator sport that fans tune into every four years but are not interested in parting with their money to watch the same players on their doorstep.