Top soccer Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Karren Brady
As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
- Karren Brady
Collection: Soccer
Image of John Helm
Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it
- John Helm
Collection: Soccer
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West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.
- John Helm
Collection: Soccer
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The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.
- John Helm
Collection: Soccer
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Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.
- John Helm
Collection: Soccer
Image of John Helm
Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation
- John Helm
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bob Paisley
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bob Paisley
It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
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Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bob Paisley
I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bob Paisley
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
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At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bob Paisley
I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bob Paisley
I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.
- Bob Paisley
Collection: Soccer
Image of Henrietta Onodi
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
- Henrietta Onodi
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bobby Charlton
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
- Bobby Charlton
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bobby Charlton
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box
- Bobby Charlton
Collection: Soccer
Image of Tom Weir
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.
- Tom Weir
Collection: Soccer
Image of Hugo Sanchez
Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.
- Hugo Sanchez
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eric Cantona
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.
- Eric Cantona
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eric Cantona
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.
- Eric Cantona
Collection: Soccer
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I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.
- Eric Cantona
Collection: Soccer
Image of Eric Cantona
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Steve Rushin
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.
- Steve Rushin
Collection: Soccer
Image of Roy Keane
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
- Roy Keane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Roy Keane
People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?
- Roy Keane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Roy Keane
If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?
- Roy Keane
Collection: Soccer
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Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.
- Roy Keane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Roy Keane
Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.
- Roy Keane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Roy Keane
Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.
- Roy Keane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jimmy Hill
It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through
- Jimmy Hill
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jimmy Hill
Despite the rain, it's still raining here at Old Trafford.
- Jimmy Hill
Collection: Soccer
Image of Simon Heffer
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.
- Simon Heffer
Collection: Soccer
Image of Tommy Docherty
If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.
- Tommy Docherty
Collection: Soccer
Image of Tommy Docherty
Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.
- Tommy Docherty
Collection: Soccer
Image of Tom O'Brien
If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).
- Tom O'Brien
Collection: Soccer
Image of Neymar
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.
- Neymar
Collection: Soccer
Image of Justin Raimondo
This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.
- Justin Raimondo
Collection: Soccer
Image of Mary McGrory
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bruce Coslet
We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.
- Bruce Coslet
Collection: Soccer
Image of Frank Skinner
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Ondino Viera
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
- Ondino Viera
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jim Courier
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
- Jim Courier
Collection: Soccer
Image of Marcelo Balboa
I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.
- Marcelo Balboa
Collection: Soccer
Image of Helenio Herrera
We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.
- Helenio Herrera
Collection: Soccer
Image of Helenio Herrera
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.
- Helenio Herrera
Collection: Soccer
Image of Landon Donovan
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Landon Donovan
I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all.
- Landon Donovan
Collection: Soccer