Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hansen

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

Alan Green

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

Alan Green

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

Chris Coleman

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Chloe Grace Moretz

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Deb Caletti

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

Louis C. K.

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.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it'.

Oliver Luck

We want everyone to feel welcome and become part of professional soccer in Houston.

Alan Green

John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

Alan Green

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

Alan Green

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

Alan Green

They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

Alan Ball

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Al Michaels

Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.

Chris Coleman

Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally.

Chip Kelly

There's a lot [of coaches], and I think in this profession, none of us invented this game, we got it from someone else, and if there's an idea, there's probably never been an original idea in football.

Eddie McGuire

This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we’ll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude,

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Alan Grayson

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

Alan Greenspan

If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.

Alan Greenspan

People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Alan Greenspan

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,

Alain Prost

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Al Neuharth

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.