Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jason Statham

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

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.

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.

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.

Bill Simmons

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

Bill Shankly

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

Bill Shankly

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Bill Shankly

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Bill Shankly

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Bill Shankly

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Bill Shankly

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

Bill Shankly

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Bill Shankly

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Bill Shankly

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

Bill Shankly

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Carl Sagan

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

Arrigo Sacchi

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

Arsene Wenger

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'