Quotes For Football Match

#1. I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

#2. I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

James Cosmo

#3. If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Rio Ferdinand

#4. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#5. When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old ...

Gaetano De Coubertin

#6. To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

Diego Maradona

#7. With civilized men ... , it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell

#8. There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Brian Clough

#9. When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.

James Nesbitt

#10. A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

Michel Patini

#11. A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

Peter Drury

#12. If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

John Curtin

#13. I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Byrne

#14. I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

Leila Aboulela

#15. The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

Bobby Robson

#16. It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

Stuart Pearce

#18. Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lesley Garrett

#19. The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

Robert Griffin III

#20. The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

Steve Rider

#21. If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

Jeremy Clarkson

#22. The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

Dan Jenkins

#23. Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

John Motson

#24. I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

Andrea Bocelli

#25. Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.

David Coleman

#26. I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

Johan Cruijff

#27. The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

Barry Davies

#28. There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

Johnny Giles

#29. In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn't see me on weekends. And football is work. I'm still working on the weekends.

Andrea Della Valle

#30. The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Bobby Robson

#31. The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football ... the perfect match for me.

Robin Van Persie

#32. This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude,

Eddie McGuire

#33. Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Pete Gill

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

Michel Patini

#35. For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Eamon De Valera

#36. The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Johan Cruijff

#37. The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England.

Sterling Sharpe

#38. Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

Alan Parry

#39. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

#40. People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

Matt Busby

#41. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

Johan Cruijff

#42. 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

#43. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

Bobby Robson

#44. Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

George Hamilton

#45. 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

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

Barry Davies