Football Quotes

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

Rangers are definitely on the back heel now

Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city.

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

West Ham play a speficic type of game - football.

They can die as soon as they want.

It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

The Croatians don't play well without the ball.

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

Football changes and so do people.

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

When we have the football, everybody’s a player.

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

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.

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.

He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.

That shot was going goalboundward

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

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.

If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.

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.

Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.

Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

When you care about a guy beyond just the field, that's when the chemistry becomes really special.

The game is not over until it is.

The Dell will continue to be a hard place to go and take points.

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

Football lost its excitement for me.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

You structure your system to fit him if he's going to be your guy.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.