Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fabio Capello

We are not ourselves anymore, we've lost a little something.

Fabio Capello

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

Fabio Capello

Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.

Fabio Capello

It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

George Orwell

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

George Orwell

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Gail Kelly

If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

Giovanni Trapattoni

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

Hope Solo

If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

Hope Solo

I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.

Hope Solo

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

Hope Solo

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

Hope Solo

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.

Hope Solo

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

Hope Solo

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.

Hope Solo

I always just had a dream to spend more time with my father. But at the end of the day, my mom was the one who kept me in soccer,who kept me doing my homework, who provided me with meals on a daily basis.

Hope Solo

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

Hope Solo

I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.

Ian McShane

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

Ian Rush

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

Ian Rush

I couldn't settle in Italy-it was like living in a foreign country.

Ian St. John

Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?

Ian Botham

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

Howard Wilkinson

If they hadn't scored, we would've won.

Howard Hughes

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

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.