Come On England Football Quotes

#1. The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

Pele

#2. If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Alan Shearer

#3. Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ...

Kevin Keegan

#4. The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

Gerard Houllier

#5. Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down.

Jonathan Pearce

#6. Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

Randy Moss

#7. If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

Brian Clough

#8. When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.

Phil Neal

#9. Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#10. For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Eamon De Valera

#11. England are looking better value for 0-0.

Barry Davies

#12. I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

Timothy F. Cahill

#13. He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

Franz Beckenbauer

#14. The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England.

Sterling Sharpe

#15. I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Arsene Wenger

#16. Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
(in Thief of Time)

Terry Pratchett

#17. It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.

Emmanuel Petit

#18. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

Matt Dickinson

#19. We heard the army before we saw it.
The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.

Rick Riordan

#20. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#21. We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.

Andrew Lansley

#22. England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#23. That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

Trevor Brooking

#24. Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Bryan Robson

#25. Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

Berti Vogts

#26. At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

Aidy Boothroyd

#27. His return gives England another key to its bow.

Stuart Pearce

#28. I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

#29. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.

Martin Samuel

#30. He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it's only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses.

Tera Lynn Childs