Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Owen

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

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.

David Coleman

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

David Coleman

And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton

David Coleman

Notting Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning

David Coleman

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

David Coleman

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

David Coleman

Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

David Coleman

In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches

David Coleman

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

Daniel Tosh

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

Daniel Tosh

If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.

Curtis Sittenfeld

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

Dave Eggers

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

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.

Alyson Hannigan

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

Anne Northup

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

Anne Robinson

In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

Andrew Shue

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

Anthony Horowitz

You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.

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.