Football Quotes by Gary Lineker

Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

— Gary Lineker

World Cups can be career-defining.

— Gary Lineker

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

— Gary Lineker

It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

— Gary Lineker

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

— Gary Lineker

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

— Gary Lineker

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

— Gary Lineker

We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

— Gary Lineker

The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

— Gary Lineker

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne…

— Gary Lineker

This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them…

— Gary Lineker

Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year:…

— Gary Lineker

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those…

— Gary Lineker

In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top…

— Gary Lineker

When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely…

— Gary Lineker

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not…

— Gary Lineker

Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup…

— Gary Lineker

Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the…

— Gary Lineker

The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die…

— Gary Lineker

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the…

— Gary Lineker

This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is…

— Gary Lineker

I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried…

— Gary Lineker

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go…

— Gary Lineker

A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

— Gary Lineker

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

— Gary Lineker

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

— Gary Lineker

Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

— Gary Lineker

Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

— Gary Lineker

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

— Gary Lineker

Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

— Gary Lineker

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the…

— Gary Lineker

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

— Gary Lineker

Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

— Gary Lineker

In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

— Gary Lineker

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

— Gary Lineker

Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.

— Gary Lineker

I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You…

— Gary Lineker

This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.

— Gary Lineker

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes,…

— Gary Lineker

Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business…

— Gary Lineker