England Quotes · Page 53

Playing for England is such an honour, it's the highest level you can play at.

— Bukayo Saka

I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. (on signing for Manchester united)

— Wayne Rooney

Signing for Leicester, they gave me a great platform to go and play for England as well.

— Harry Maguire

I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.

— Ron Atkinson

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

— Ron Atkinson

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.

— Bertrand Barere

The only people who should play for England are English people

— Jack Wilshere

I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

— David Seaman

“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun,” Orwell charged in “The Lion and the Unicorn.” “It is a land of…

— Thomas E Ricks

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten…

— Paul Weller

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like…

— Aasif Mandvi

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions…

— Peter Stuyvesant

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a…

— Jonathan Swift

It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from…

— Warren MacKenzie

Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a…

— Bill Bryson

I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing…

— Vincent Kompany

This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both…

— Stephen Fry

Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on…

— Michael Nyqvist

“In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694,…

— David Graeber

I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a…

— Michael Owen

The point of fact is, just in simple ways, you can see how much better things have gotten. I mean, when I…

— Freeman Dyson

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen -…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

— Trudie Styler

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

— Rudyard Kipling

Glen Johnson is an England international in the making. Although he has already played for England .

— Tony Gale

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

— Franz Beckenbauer

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

— Mark White

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

— Shelley Winters

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

— Gary Neville

In England there's a lot of money to create a great team like Barcelona.

— Marco van Basten

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge…

— Rick Stein

Iran are very strong because we have many good players playing top-class football in Spain, Germany and England.

— Ali Daei

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

— Bob Hope

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

— Terri Windling

I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)

— Ron Atkinson

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am still adapting to London life, but England was always a country that 'interested me.

— Erik Lamela