Soccer Quotes · Page 31

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

— David Ginola

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

— Lionel Messi

On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.

— Josie Totah

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

— Shay Given

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

— David Coleman

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

— Freja Beha Erichsen

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

— Eduardo Galeano

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

— Toni Kukoc

I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing,…

— Jim James

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

— Steven Gerrard

When you've got a player who does what he does at that pace this late in the game than you know you've…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing…

— Pele

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

Everybody loves tennis or soccer there. That's another reason for these unbelievable tennis players from Tandil.

— Juan Martin del Potro

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism.…

— Eamon Dunphy

The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see.…

— Ron Greenwood

I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be…

— Melina Marchetta

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has…

— Arsene Wenger

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13.…

— DeAndre Yedlin

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There's much our country can…

— Sunil Chhetri

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what…

— Keith Devlin

Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the…

— Henry Winter

I feel like I have big thighs. My brother was always like, 'Yeah, I want big thighs! Big thighs are awesome!' And…

— Ali Krieger

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

— Tony Adams

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

— Fabio Capello

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

— Jamie Carragher

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

— Anonymous

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced … Zooommmmm.

— Joe Royle

In my country, the kids start to play soccer when they are seven or eight.

— Alessandro Nesta

Growing up as a competitive athlete and playing Division 1 soccer, my entire life was based around hydration.

— Alex Cooper

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

— Tim Howard

I think the playbook in American football would be a very good idea for soccer.

— Julian Nagelsmann

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

— Alex Ferguson

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

— Jose Mourinho

Well clearly Graeme it all went according to plan, what was the plan exactly ?

— Elton Welsby

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

— Andres Iniesta

Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

— Kevin Keegan

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

— Steven Gerrard

I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.

— Jack Charlton