Soccer Quotes

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

Mabutt has now played seven consecutive games for England, this is his seventh

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

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.

If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

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.

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

At least is was a victory and at least we won

We are really the victims of our own problems

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

He hit that one like an arrow

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

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.

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.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.