Soccer Quotes

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

Every advantage has its disadvantage.

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

As I've said before and I've said it in the past.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

I do believe in fate.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through