Top soccer Quotes Collection - Page 17

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Image of Johan Cruijff
Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.
- Johan Cruijff
Collection: Soccer
Image of Johan Cruijff
You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
- Johan Cruijff
Collection: Soccer
Image of Ann Coulter
I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.
- Ann Coulter
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alan Green
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
- Alan Green
Collection: Soccer
Image of Johan Cruijff
I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.
- Johan Cruijff
Collection: Soccer
Image of Johan Cruijff
Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
- Johan Cruijff
Collection: Soccer
Image of Brian Clough
If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.
- Brian Clough
Collection: Soccer
Image of Brian Clough
Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.
- Brian Clough
Collection: Soccer
Image of Brian Clough
Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.
- Brian Clough
Collection: Soccer
Image of Anne Applebaum
High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.
- Anne Applebaum
Collection: Soccer
Image of Matt Damon
Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.
- Matt Damon
Collection: Soccer
Image of Billy Connolly
,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.
- Billy Connolly
Collection: Soccer
Image of Ann Coulter
The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists.
- Ann Coulter
Collection: Soccer
Image of Graham Taylor
Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.
- Graham Taylor
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Immortal Technique
They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.
- Immortal Technique
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jimmy Fallon
Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.
- Jimmy Fallon
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jimmy Fallon
Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)
- Jimmy Fallon
Collection: Soccer
Image of Rio Ferdinand
Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?
- Rio Ferdinand
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Alex Ferguson
They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.
- Alex Ferguson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Dave Eggers
A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.
- Dave Eggers
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jimmy Fallon
Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.
- Jimmy Fallon
Collection: Soccer
Image of Megyn Kelly
I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.
- Megyn Kelly
Collection: Soccer
Image of Fernando Torres
Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.
- Fernando Torres
Collection: Soccer
Image of Stephen Malkmus
I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
- Stephen Malkmus
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: Soccer
Image of Peter Sagal
If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.
- Peter Sagal
Collection: Soccer
Image of Ryan Giggs
I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?
- Ryan Giggs
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eduardo Galeano
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
- Eduardo Galeano
Collection: Soccer
Image of Pope Francis
It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Soccer
Image of Germaine Greer
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
- Germaine Greer
Collection: Soccer
Image of Wayne Gretzky
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
- Wayne Gretzky
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steven Gerrard
This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
- Steven Gerrard
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steven Gerrard
I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.
- Steven Gerrard
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steven Gerrard
My message to the fans would be that hopefully I can continue to perform as consistently as I have done this season and lift a trophy for them soon.
- Steven Gerrard
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steven Gerrard
How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this? I am really happy with the club. I will be having talks with the chairman and the manager shortly, but it is looking good. Liverpool fans are crazy, they were unbelievable, and I'd like to dedicate this victory to them.
- Steven Gerrard
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steven Gerrard
There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.
- Steven Gerrard
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steven Gerrard
We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.
- Steven Gerrard
Collection: Soccer