Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

Harry Redknapp

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Harry Redknapp

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Harry Redknapp

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

Harry Redknapp

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

Harry Redknapp

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Harry Redknapp

I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!

Michael Ballack

But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.

Rafael Benitez

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

Rafael Benitez

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

Rafael Benitez

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

Rafael Nadal

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Rafael Nadal

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

Rafael Nadal

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

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.

Germaine Greer

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

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.

Jens Lehmann

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.

Gary Allan

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

Gareth Barry

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

Freddy Adu

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Freddy Adu

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

Freddy Adu

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

Gianfranco Zola

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

Elton John

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

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.