Top 100 Quotes About Soccer Football
#1. I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
Andrew Luck
#2. My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.
Martin O'Neill
#3. In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.
Nicky Campbell
#4. I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.
Paul Ince
#5. 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
#6. At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.
Bob Paisley
#7. Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
Tony Cascarino
#8. 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
#9. I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
Ronaldinho
#10. Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?
Shania Twain
#11. There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.
Alan Parry
#12. There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.
Landon Donovan
#13. I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.
Neil Warnock
#14. It's an enemy that I can't allow to wound me a second time. It's already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface.
Andrea Pirlo
#15. Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it
John Helm
#16. I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm
#17. It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.
Graham Taylor
#18. When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.
Danny Baker
#19. It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.
Harry Redknapp
#20. Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele
#21. I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
George Orwell
#22. If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.
Tommy Docherty
#23. 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
#24. Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
Vinnie Jones
#25. The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.
Martin Samuel
#26. 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
#27. If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.
Bob Paisley
#28. Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
Ronaldo
#30. Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.
Martin Samuel
#31. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
#32. Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.
Carl Hagelin
#33. [Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
John Sutherland
#34. I am a fascist, not a racist. I give the straight arm salute because it is a salute from a 'camerata' to 'camerati'. The salute is aimed at my people. With the straight arm I don't want to incite violence and certainly not racial hatred.
Paolo Di Canio
#35. Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.
Pete Gill
#36. So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?
Frank Skinner
#37. Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
Nick Hornby
#38. He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.
Aidy Boothroyd
#39. Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.
Samuel Eto'o
#40. To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.
Gary Lineker
#41. I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.
David Blunkett
#42. The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.
Jose Mourinho
#43. Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
Arsene Wenger
#44. If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Stanley Rous
#45. When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.
Julian Sands
#46. And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
Eduardo Galeano
#47. I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving
Steven Gerrard
#48. Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?
Giles Smith
#49. I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.
Pat McAfee
#50. It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.
Rafael Benitez
#51. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.
Martin O'Neill
#52. As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.
Joe Elliott
#53. I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.
Patrice Evra
#54. Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.
Johan Cruijff
#55. I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.
Peter Beardsley
#56. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
Bill Shankly
#58. Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic.
Jose Mourinho
#59. What is your position at the company? Right back.
Jason McAteer
#60. With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
Graeme Souness
#61. There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.
Gareth Barry
#62. A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee
not playing soccer, not playing football
but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.
Judith Viorst
#63. 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
#64. I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
Arsene Wenger
#66. I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.
Terry Butcher
#67. Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
Jose Mourinho
#68. The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.
Hesketh Pearson
#69. Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#70. Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.
Brian Clough
#71. The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
Johnny Giles
#72. I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
Andy Murray
#73. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.
David Bennun
#74. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.
Arsene Wenger
#75. I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
Jack Kemp
#76. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.
Kevin Williams
#78. If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
Bo Jackson
#79. Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer ...
Eamon Dunphy
#80. Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.
Jonathan Wilson
#81. 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
#82. With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?
Tony Cascarino
#83. I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
Les Ferdinand
#84. The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
Sepp Herberger
#85. I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.
Ron Atkinson
#87. Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
J.B. Priestley
#88. Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.
Henry Winter
#89. When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'
Paul Merson
#90. Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.
Phil Cornwell
#91. We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.
Joe Kinnear
#92. 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
#93. I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
Lee Hendrie
#94. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.
Rod Liddle
#95. If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?
Roy Keane
#96. Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.
Steve Staunton
#97. Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
Nick Saban
#98. I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!
Harry Redknapp
#99. The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm.
Joe Royle
#100. Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'
Luiz Felipe Scolari
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