Quotes About Brazil Football

#1. It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.

Neymar

#2. Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

Pele

#3. When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing.

Matthew Pearl

#4. Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.

Alan Brazil

#5. Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

Johan Cruijff

#6. The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Lord Acton

#7. My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.

Selenis Leyva

#8. As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

Gareth Bale

#9. 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

#10. He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

Gary Lineker

#11. One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

Marta

#12. The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

Alan Brazil

#13. No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

Anne Robinson

#15. I did not want Philip - that handsome, incorrigible, charming tease who stole hearts he had no intention of keeping.

Julianne Donaldson

#16. Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

Marta

#17. This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar ... in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#18. Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.

Mike Krzyzewski

#19. Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Katherine Neville

#20. Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Alyson Noel

#21. Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

#22. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

Bobby Robson

#23. There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Eugene Chadbourne

#24. To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Juvenal

#25. I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

Yingluck Shinawatra

#26. He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

Shaquille O'Neal

#27. The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Michel Patini

#28. It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

Barry Davies

#29. Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

Ron Greenwood

#30. If you want to heal
Heal others
And smile or weep
At this very happy reversal of fate

Muriel Barbery

#31. Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

Pele

#32. I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Alan Brazil

#33. An emotion: *pokes its head through the mountain of suppression I've buried it under*

Me, beating it with a stick: Back! Back!

Unknown

#34. Belgium's not a hotpot of international football

Alan Brazil

#35. Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.

Colleen Hoover