Soccer Quotes

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

,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.

Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

Kicked wide of the goal with such precision

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.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

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.

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno

Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign country.

I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.

If England had scored in the first half, I think the young legs would have found younger hearts inside them

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

You're not a real manager unless you've been sacked.

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

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

Believe it or not, goals can change a game.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's quite extraordinary.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.