Soccer Quotes

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future

The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

Nine months of misery.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

The game must have been past my bed-time.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

To me personally, it's nothing personal to me

I don't hold water with that theory

Systems are made by players rather than players making systems

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city.