Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mia Hamm

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

Mia Hamm

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Mia Hamm

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Mia Hamm

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

Mia Hamm

I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.

Mia Hamm

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Mia Hamm

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Mia Hamm

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

Jason Statham

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

Jason McAteer

What is your position at the company? Right back.

Erma Bombeck

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Fernando Torres

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.

Ferran Adria

My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.

Gary Sinise

Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.

Frank Rijkaard

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

Christoph Waltz

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Franz Beckenbauer

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

Jack Kemp

I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

J. B. Priestley

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

J. B. Priestley

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

George Boateng

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

George Best

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

George Best

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

George Best

Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

George Best

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

George Best

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Gary Lineker

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

Gary Lineker

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

Gary Lineker

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

Gary Lineker

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.