Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Cantona

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Eric Cantona

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Eric Cantona

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

Eric Cantona

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

Eric Cantona

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Eric Cantona

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

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.

Jack Nicklaus

We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.

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.

Graeme Souness

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Graeme Le Saux

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

Glenn Hoddle

He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

Glenn Hoddle

Football's all about 90 minutes

Glenn Hoddle

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

Glenn Hoddle

It was a titanic effort.

Gregg Sulkin

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

Jack Charlton

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

Jack Charlton

It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.

Jack Charlton

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

Jon Stewart

In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am.

Jon Stewart

They create these rules and argue about things we don't even understand. It is like watching soccer. You sit there and you're sort of amused, but most of the time you're thinking, pick up the ball! That's what you're thinking.

Pope Francis

Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Pope Francis

It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

Pete Wentz

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

Pete Wentz

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

Phil Neville

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

Peter Shilton

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

Mike Gray

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

Mick McCarthy

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

Emanuel Steward

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.