Top 49 Football Score Quotes
#1. I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
Eddie McClintock
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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.
Michael Owen
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#9. After four years of playing [the school fight song] for every pep rally, at the start of every half of every football game, after every score, at the end of the game, and at random times when the team needed a boost, it was forever drilled into my psyche.
Shanna Swendson
#10. Vialli's absolutely certain that he knows one way or the other whether he'll score or not.
Jonathan Pearce
#11. You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds
Alex McLeish
#12. He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
David Peace
#14. Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Thierry Henry
#15. 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
#16. A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.
Walter Payton
#17. People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.
Jermain Defoe
#18. The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
#19. 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
#20. He'd score more goals if he was a better finisher.
Dion Dublin
#21. Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
Nick Hornby
#22. No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.
Rob Hawthorne
#23. When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?
Mario Balotelli
#24. The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.
Tony Cottee
#25. Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
Timothy F. Cahill
#26. We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.
Jose Antonio Camacho
#27. The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.
Martin O'Neill
#28. To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
Steve Sabol
#29. In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.
Roberto Mancini
#30. I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.
Mike Newell
#31. Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals
George Hamilton
#32. It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.
Johan Cruijff
#33. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.
Bobby Robson
#34. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
David Pleat
#35. 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
#36. There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in
George Hamilton
#37. We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.
Alex Totten
#38. I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.
Howard Wilkinson
#39. I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.
Jose Mourinho
#40. My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.
Dada Maravilha
#41. Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.
Patrick Vieira
#42. Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
Johan Cruijff
#43. Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted.
Simon Jordan
#44. When the football is handed to the ball carrier, everyone counts on that guy gaining a down or getting into the end zone, and when he does the crowd goes wild. But those who carry another's burden, by helping out a weak or injured brother or sister, make a real difference and score points with God.
Jake Byrne
#45. My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
Lou Holtz
#46. Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score
Barry Davies
#47. I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.
Tom Dunne
#48. I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.
Angus Loughran
#49. 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
