Soccer Quotes

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

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

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

People think I like partying, but I actually don't like going out. I'm a homebody. I like chilling in with friends and playing PlayStation 3 Pro Evolution Soccer.

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

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

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

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

When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

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.

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.

You were only a goalkeeper.

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

That lad must have been born offside.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.

The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.