Football Simple Quotes by Gary Lineker

Fella’s a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi…

— Gary Lineker

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought'…

— Gary Lineker

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

— Gary Lineker

People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

— Gary Lineker

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

— Gary Lineker

Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was…

— Gary Lineker

People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

— Gary Lineker

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

— Gary Lineker

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

— Gary Lineker

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

— Gary Lineker

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

— 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 players and…

— 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 badly... the…

— Gary Lineker

It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

— Gary Lineker

...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

— Gary Lineker