Soccer Goal Sayings

#1. It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

Lionel Messi

#2. 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

#3. When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

Shay Given

#4. American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

David Mamet

#5. I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

Sean Durkin

#6. Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Chris Coleman

#7. Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

Viggo Mortensen

#8. He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his feet in no time and getting on with it. He is a strong character and a great sight when he's heading for goal.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#9. I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.

Linda Sanchez

#10. The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got

Jimmy Greaves

#11. As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.

Jozy Altidore

#12. All human history moves towards one great goal

James Joyce

#13. I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

Ronaldo

#14. If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

Hope Solo

#15. The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Diego Maradona

#16. In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#17. We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

Lorik Cana

#18. Kicked wide of the goal with such precision

Des Lynam

#19. And meade had a hatrick. He scoresd two goals

Richard Whitmore

#20. In reality, the vagina is not a game of soccer to be kicked around like a ball. Its goal is to love and not keep score of how many times it's beaten the competition. Having a vagina is a beautiful thing and shouldn't be locked up or controlled by those who do not have one.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#21. I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.

Hope Solo

#22. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

Martin O'Neill

#23. You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her.

Rick Riordan

#24. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. 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

#26. I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Mia Hamm

#27. There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.

Warren Ellis

#28. 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

#29. The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.

John Helm

#30. I like to provide American humor for British soccer coaches when possible. During keeper practice I'll offer to stand behind the goal and shag a few balls!!

Neil Leckman

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

Alan Parry

#32. And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.

Elton Welsby

#33. I didn't do anything [during the game]. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

Robinho

#34. That goal surprised most people, least of all myself

Garth Crooks

#35. The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.

Steve Capus

#36. The goal is soccer's orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life.

Eduardo Galeano

#37. There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.

Landon Donovan

#38. He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

Glenn Hoddle

#39. Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Landon Donovan

#40. The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

Alex Ferguson