Goals That Were Scored Quotes

#1. My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.

Kevin Connolly

#2. Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

Vinnie Jones

#3. Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.

Alessandro Del Piero

#4. When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

George Hamilton

#5. Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.

Lionel Messi

#6. Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

Terry Venables

#7. I can't think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

Thierry Henry

#8. You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.

Victoria Beckham

#9. And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn't want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

Matt Haig

#10. Every step begins a journey, and this one is for us.

Erin Hunter

#11. I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?

Paula Poundstone

#12. Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'

Ian Rush

#13. Red climbed like a monkey, I to climbed like a monkey. A very old one. With one leg. And six fingers

Eoin Colfer

#14. Goals are easily scored with either a skillful strike or a strong one. If you make a strong strike, it's impossible for it to be defended by obstacles in your goal!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

Abby Wambach

#16. I didn't go to college.

Shelby Lynne

#17. I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.

Luis Suarez

#18. The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

Pele

#19. In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#20. Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

Michael Owen

#21. I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.

Wayne Rooney

#22. My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Sylvia Plath

#23. We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.

Dennis Bergkamp

#24. David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
(on David Johnson)

David Platt

#25. You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

Endre Szemeredi

#26. Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

Franck Ribery

#27. I've always had a fascination with pirates. You know, I've written a song completely inspired by I want this to feel like pirates, you know, fighting together, made a music video about it, yada, yada.

Lindsey Stirling

#28. Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Eric Cantona

#29. Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

Bill Shankly

#30. Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.

Peter Withe

#31. Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

Conan O'Brien

#32. And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

Alan Parry

#33. Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.

John Motson

#34. 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

#35. No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

Mark Rydell

#36. Most goals are scored between the posts.

Jamie Redknapp

#37. When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

Phil Everly

#38. USA schools know that computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions, WiFi and campus cell towers are radiation poisoning the children and the government is determined to keep on doing it.

Steven Magee

#39. It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.

Aden Young

#40. Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Pele

#41. Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Bette Midler