Top 87 Football Goal Sayings
#1. When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.
Shay Given
#2. Chris Porter scored his first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week.
Jeff Stelling
#3. There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.
Matty Bell
#4. I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
Oliver Kahn
#5. It was one of the best goals I've seen this millenium.
Tony Gubba
#6. That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.
Dennis Miller
#7. In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.
George Carlin
#8. Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.
Chris Coleman
#9. Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
Arsene Wenger
#11. American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet
#12. What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.
Jimmy Hill
#13. You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds
Alex McLeish
#14. Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball
Ian St. John
#15. Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.
Richard Corliss
#16. The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.
Arsene Wenger
#17. The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.
Alvin Martin
#18. He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
George Best
#19. FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
Sepp Blatter
#20. I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.
Usain Bolt
#21. Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
#22. I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
Victoria Beckham
#23. He'd score more goals if he was a better finisher.
Dion Dublin
#24. You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.
Groucho Marx
#25. Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Ray Lewis
#26. The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.
Tony Cottee
#27. We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.
Lorik Cana
#28. Silvestre has had the whites of the goal in his eyes ever since ...
Ian Darke
#29. If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
Michael Corbat
#30. We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.
Alan Buckley
#31. He just got his body between himself and the goal.
Ray Clemence
#33. Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
Tony Dungy
#34. It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.
Mesut Ozil
#35. If Villa got another goal now it would change the scoreline completely.
Tony Cottee
#36. The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.
Michael Owen
#37. That's Steve Howey's third-ever League goal and he's never scored more than two in a season before.
Jeff Stelling
#38. I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
Pete Rose
#39. The goal of Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies is to help you understand the basics of football rules and the player positions.
Howie Long
#40. That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.
Brian Marwood
#41. And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.
Elton Welsby
#42. When you lose a goal so early, you've always got an uphill mountain.
Steve Claridge
#43. Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.
Simon Kuper
#44. We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away.
Bill Simmons
#45. We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.
Sergey Galitsky
#46. I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.
Jose Mourinho
#47. Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
Zinedine Zidane
#48. When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy ... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.
Gabriel Batistuta
#49. The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.
Kasey Keller
#50. Fulham haven't had a shot on target, which is probably why they aren't in the goals.
Tony Cottee
#51. All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.
Eric Bristow
#52. Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.
Peter Withe
#53. I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm
#54. Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.
Mark Hateley
#55. My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football.
Steve Young
#58. Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals
George Hamilton
#59. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
George M. Gilbert
#60. I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.
Joe Royle
#61. I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.
Gordon Strachan
#62. He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.
Garry Monk
#63. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.
Martin O'Neill
#64. In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.
Roberto Mancini
#65. My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'
Michael Strahan
#66. The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.
Tony Dungy
#67. Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.
Garry Wills
#68. The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Roman Abramovich
#70. If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased
Bertrand Russell
#71. Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.
Anthony Adamson
#72. Living life without a GOAL is like playing football without a Goal post. There is no Purpose. Then why play the game of Life?-RVM
R.v.m.
#73. When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.
George Hamilton
#74. In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#75. The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#76. They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.
Nasser Hussain
#77. 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
#78. The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.
Martin O'Neill
#79. There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.
Tex Schramm
#80. Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ...
Jon Champion
#81. The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life.
Bill Shankly
#82. The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.
Drew Brees
#84. I didn't do anything [during the game]. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.
Robinho
#85. When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
Chuck Pagano
#86. Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
Johan Cruijff
#87. Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.
Geoff Thompson
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