Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Warnock

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

Neil Warnock

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

Neymar

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

Joe Royle

We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

Joe Royle

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

Joe Royle

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

Joe Namath

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

John Gregory

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

Kathy Griffin

I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

Kristin Armstrong

I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

Kristin Armstrong

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

Marcel Desailly

One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

Kenny Dalglish

You might as well talk to my baby daughter. You'll get more sense out of her

Kenny Dalglish

As I've said before and I've said it in the past...

P. J. O'Rourke

...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

Paul Merson

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'

Paul Ince

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

Luke Pasqualino

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

Lorrie Fair

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

Lorrie Fair

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

Mia Hamm

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

Mia Hamm

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

Mia Hamm

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Mia Hamm

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Mia Hamm

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

Mia Hamm

I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.

Mia Hamm

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Mia Hamm

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Mia Hamm

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

Nick Saban

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Nick Hornby

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?