Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Cantona

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Eric Cantona

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Eric Cantona

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Eric Cantona

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.

Eric Cantona

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

Eric Cantona

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Eric Cantona

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

Jack Charlton

I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.

Jack Charlton

It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.

Jack Charlton

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Le Saux

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

Glenn Hoddle

He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

Glenn Hoddle

Football's all about 90 minutes

Glenn Hoddle

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

Glenn Hoddle

It was a titanic effort.

Gregg Sulkin

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

Danny McBride

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Danny McBride

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

Glenn Roeder

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

Jason Statham

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

Jason McAteer

What is your position at the company? Right back.

Gianfranco Zola

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

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.

Johan Bruyneel

I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

Johan Cruijff

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

Johan Cruijff

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

Johan Cruijff

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

Johan Cruijff

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Johan Cruijff

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.