Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boris Johnson

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

Bobby Robson

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

Bobby Robson

In a year's time, he's a year older.

Bobby Robson

The margin is very marginal.

Bobby Robson

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

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.

Not me. I've got three kids. I've got to get back for soccer practice.

That just speaks tremendously of the soccer in this area.

Dan Marino

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

Dan Marino

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

David Coleman

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

David Coleman

And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton

David Coleman

Notting Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning

David Coleman

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

David Coleman

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

David Coleman

Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

David Coleman

In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches

David Coleman

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

Dave Checketts

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

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.