Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Atkinson

The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

Ron Atkinson

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

Haruki Murakami

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

Pamela Anderson

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

Otto Rehhagel

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

Wes Welker

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

Zach Braff

For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?

Ziggy Marley

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Woody Allen

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

Will Ferrell

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

Samuel Eto'o

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Samuel Eto'o

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Wayne Gretzky

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Vladimir Putin

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Rod Stewart

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Robert Plant

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

Yann Martel

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Xabi Alonso

As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.

Xabi Alonso

I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.

Xabi Alonso

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

Xavi

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

Riccardo Muti

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.

Tucker Carlson

Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

Roy Keane

Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.

Roy Keane

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

Roy Keane

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

Roy Keane

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Roy Keane

Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.

Roy Keane

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

Roy Keane

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Roy Keane

There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.

Roy Keane

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.