Soccer Quotes

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Some things you can shake off, some things dig deeper than soccer.

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

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.

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.

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

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness

Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.

Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

David James is a cretin.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.