Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Namath

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

John Gregory

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

David Beckham

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

David Beckham

Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.

David Beckham

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

David Beckham

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

David Beckham

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

David Beckham

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

David Beckham

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

David Beckham

One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.

David Mamet

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

Danny Baker

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

Danny Baker

Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

Danny Baker

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.

Jack Nicklaus

We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.

Jack Kemp

I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

J. B. Priestley

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

J. B. Priestley

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

George Boateng

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

George Best

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

George Best

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

George Best

Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

George Best

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

George Best

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Gary Lineker

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

Gary Lineker

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

Gary Lineker

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

Gary Lineker

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

Gary Neville

I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day we've got to be ruthless and we are in the business of winning for us. If they had scored three or four, nobody would have said do you feel sorry for Mark Bosnich? We don't feel sorry for Craig Forrest.

Fred Durst

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

Eric Cantona

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

Eric Cantona

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.