Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Blunkett

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

Evangeline Lilly

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Mike Royko

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

Nick Saban

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Nick Hornby

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

Matt Damon

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

Mitch Hedberg

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.

Martin Jol

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

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.

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***!

Matt Groening

A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Jud Tylor

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

Nelson Mandela

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

Nelson Mandela

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

Nelson Mandela

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Neil Warnock

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

Neil Warnock

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

Neymar

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

Jessica Szohr

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

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.