Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Green

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

Alan Green

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

Alan Jackson

Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

Chris Coleman

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Chloe Grace Moretz

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Bernardo Bertolucci

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

David Icke

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

Louis C. K.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Bryan Robson

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

Bryan Robson

Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

Bryan Robson

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

Bryan Robson

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Carl Hagelin

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

Bo Jackson

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Bo Jackson

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Bo Jackson

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Bo Jackson

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it'.

Bill Gates

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

Bo Jackson

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

Bob Paisley

I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

Bob Paisley

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

Bob Paisley

I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

Bob Paisley

I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.

Bob Paisley

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

Bob Paisley

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

Bill Parcells

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Carol Bellamy

Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.

Alan Curbishley

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

Aimee Teegarden

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

Alanis Morissette

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Edward Smith

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

Brett Hull

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.