Soccer Quotes · Page 33

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

— Lee Hendrie

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

— Johan Cruijff

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

— Arsene Wenger

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

— Martin McGuinness

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

— Dan Marino

I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.

— Christine Sinclair

We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.

— Joe Kinnear

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

— Alex Morgan

Surveys show that while many people are open to the idea of an autonomous vehicle driving them to work, far fewer are…

— Karl Iagnemma

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and…

— Pele

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands…

— Roy Keane

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

— Douglas Costa

My father fought for me to play football. He never had to make me shinpads, but it was a lot of money…

— Luka Modric

Kids in inner cities sometimes have no way out other than through athletics. It is time for soccer to be a bigger…

— Jozy Altidore

African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very…

— Cafu

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and…

— Steven Gerrard

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they…

— Abbas Kiarostami

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's…

— Gordon Ramsay

“I read somewhere that spiders can spin silk strong enough to hold the weight of a thousand trucks. I tried to imagine…

— Cath Crowley

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by…

— Tom Dunne

The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his…

— Phil Cornwell

So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then…

— General Butt Naked

Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I…

— Lindsey Horan

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes…

— Eric Cantona

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

— Anonymous

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

— David Coleman

Let me tell you about 'Mad Dog' Madsen. He was like the Soccer Dad of the Stanford Men's Basketball Team.

— Jason Collins

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

— John Helm

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

— Cesc Fabregas

I had a soccer double, but most of what is in the movie is me!

— Amanda Bynes

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

— Jose Mourinho

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

— Ian Astbury

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno

— Ian Darke

It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

“What those anti-cookie-baking mothers wanted me to do was turn baseball into soccer.”

— Chuck Klosterman

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

— Alex Ferguson

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

— Steve Staunton

Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.

— Mike Ingham

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

— Bob Paisley

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

— Steve Nash