In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing…

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal…

— Orhan Pamuk

“He wants to play major college football at a university far away, where nobody will know about his tragic family history. Then he wants…

— Neil Hayes

Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, 'I'm a Madrid fan until death.'

— Carlos Vela

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it…

— Andrea Bocelli

I'm a big Manchester United fan. When I was a kid, I worked with a guy who was a Man United fan, and that…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

— Jimmy Greaves

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.

— Gordon Strachan

There's one ball on the field, and that ball is mine.

— Salvador Mendoza

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and…

— Jack Kemp

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

— Desmond Morris

Soccer is Europe's biggest sport and the world's biggest sport, so as we look to go into Europe, soccer is the way to do…

— Maverick Carter

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Broken bones and skinned knees, this game is not for the weak. One ball, one goal, shoot, score! Soccer makes me whole.

— Anonymous

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

— Rio Ferdinand