Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Keane

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

Roy Keane

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Roy Keane

Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.

Roy Keane

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

Roy Keane

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Roy Keane

There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.

Roy Keane

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Ron White

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

Rupert Lowe

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

Shaun White

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

Shailene Woodley

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.

Scott Westerfeld

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

Steven Page

I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

Stuart Pearce

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

Robbie Savage

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

Michael Ballack

But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.

Rafael Benitez

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

Rafael Benitez

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

Rafael Benitez

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

Rafael Nadal

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Rafael Nadal

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

Rafael Nadal

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

Serge Schmemann

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

Serge Schmemann

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

Sepp Blatter

Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

Serena Williams

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

Sean Durkin

I went to my first college to play soccer.

Sean Durkin

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

Sean Durkin

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Mick Jagger

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

Michelle Obama

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

Michelle Obama

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.

Noel Gallagher

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.