Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ginola

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

Dave Barry

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

Dave Barry

European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.

Bryan Ferry

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

Cesc Fabregas

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

Alan Hansen

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

Alan Green

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

Alan Green

This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

Alan Green

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

Alan Green

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

Alan Green

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

Alan Jackson

Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

Chris Coleman

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Chloe Grace Moretz

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Louis C. K.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Edward Smith

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

Brett Hull

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

Brian Kilmeade

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

Jamie Carragher

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

Bryan Robson

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

Bryan Robson

Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

Bryan Robson

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

Bryan Robson

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Carl Hagelin

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

Bo Jackson

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Bo Jackson

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Bo Jackson

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Bo Jackson

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Bill Gates

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

Craig Johnston

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Cobi Jones

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

Cobi Jones

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

Cobi Jones

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.