Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Ishmael Beah

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

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***!

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.

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.

Elton John

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

Nate Robinson

I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

Milan Kundera

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Marat Safin

If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

Marat Safin

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.