Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Atkinson

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

Ron Atkinson

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Ron Atkinson

On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

Ron Atkinson

The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

Ron Atkinson

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

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.

Rod Stewart

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Robert Plant

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

Riccardo Muti

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.

Tucker Carlson

Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

Valentino Rossi

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

Sam Allardyce

I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

Ryan Guzman

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

Ryan Giggs

I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?

Robert Hughes

If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

Robert Hughes

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

Samuel Eto'o

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Samuel Eto'o

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

Wayne Gretzky

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Vladimir Putin

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Stephen Chow

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Vidal Sassoon

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Viggo Mortensen

I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

Viggo Mortensen

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

Geraldine Brooks

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.