Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gary Neville

I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day we've got to be ruthless and we are in the business of winning for us. If they had scored three or four, nobody would have said do you feel sorry for Mark Bosnich? We don't feel sorry for Craig Forrest.

Fred Durst

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

Not me. I've got three kids. I've got to get back for soccer practice.

That just speaks tremendously of the soccer in this area.

Ethan Zohn

If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.

Evangeline Lilly

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

Hakeem Olajuwon

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Haile Gebrselassie

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.

Graham Roberts

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.

Graham Taylor

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

Graham Taylor

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

Graham Taylor

People always remember the second half.

Graham Taylor

Is he ever going to learn?

Graham Taylor

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Jay Leno

ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.

Javier Clemente

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

Mike Royko

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

Knute Rockne

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Knute Rockne

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Knute Rockne

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Knute Rockne

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Knute Rockne

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

Mike Ditka

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Glenn Roeder

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

Jessica Szohr

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

Ian MacKaye

I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

Eric Cantona

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

Eric Cantona

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

Eric Cantona

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.