Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

Hakeem Olajuwon

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Haile Gebrselassie

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

Graham Roberts

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.

Graham Taylor

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

Graham Taylor

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

Graham Taylor

People always remember the second half.

Graham Taylor

Is he ever going to learn?

Graham Taylor

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Ishmael Beah

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

Elton John

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

Ian MacKaye

I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

Harry Redknapp

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Harry Redknapp

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Harry Redknapp

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

Harry Redknapp

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

Harry Redknapp

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Harry Redknapp

I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!

Abby Wambach

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

Abby Wambach

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

Abbas Kiarostami

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they chose that it's 90 minutes, not less and not more. But the choices are the responsibility of the filmmaker. You have to choose to join the story at an arbitrary point, and you leave it at an arbitrary point.

Adam Oates

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

Daniel Tosh

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

Daniel Tosh

If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.

Curtis Sittenfeld

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

Dave Eggers

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

David Blunkett

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

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.