Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fabio Capello

We are not ourselves anymore, we've lost a little something.

Fabio Capello

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

Fabio Capello

Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.

Fabio Capello

It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

George Orwell

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

George Orwell

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Gail Kelly

If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

Fernando Torres

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

Ferran Adria

My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.

Gary Sinise

Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.

Frank Rijkaard

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

Christoph Waltz

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Franz Beckenbauer

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

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.

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.