Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Richman

People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests. I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.

Adam Richman

I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.

Adam Carolla

I don't like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it's the biggest whatever in the World, look, they drink tea everywhere too; they're pussies, you understand? I want some coffee.

Abby Wambach

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

Abby Wambach

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

Abbas Kiarostami

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they chose that it's 90 minutes, not less and not more. But the choices are the responsibility of the filmmaker. You have to choose to join the story at an arbitrary point, and you leave it at an arbitrary point.

Adam Oates

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

Alex McLeish

We live for games like these.

Aleksandar Hemon

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

Aleksandar Hemon

I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

Dan Marino

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

Dan Marino

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

David Blunkett

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

David Beckham

You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.

David Beckham

Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.

David Beckham

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

David Beckham

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

David Beckham

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

David Beckham

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

David Beckham

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

David Beckham

One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.

David Mamet

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

Danny Baker

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

Danny Baker

Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

Danny Baker

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.

Albert Camus

All I know of morality I learned from football

Danny McBride

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Danny McBride

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

Drew Carey

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Drew Carey

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

Drew Carey

International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team.

Doug Davidson

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

Don Howe

At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch