Player Quotes - Page 9

• Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Soccer, Football, Forgive Me

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• David James is a cretin.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football

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• I'm very happy to have moved to West Ham, because I can play for a better team than Sheffield Wednesday.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Realising

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• Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I am a fascist, not a racist. I give the straight arm salute because it is a salute from a 'camerata' to 'camerati'. The salute is aimed at my people. With the straight arm I don't want to incite violence and certainly not racial hatred.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, People

  "Paolo Di Canio row intensifies as dean of Durham sends open letter". www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2013.

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• If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Ifs

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• Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

  Shania Twain

  Soccer, Football, People

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

  Rod Liddle

  Soccer, Football, Boys

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• How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

  Johnny Giles

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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• The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

  Martin O'Neill

  Soccer, Football, Goal

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• Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Existence

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• A holocaust of an afternoon.

  Carlton Palmer

  Soccer, Football, Holocaust

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• There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Age

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• Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Anchors

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• It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Regret

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• A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Ordinary

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• Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Eagles

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• Is he ever going to learn?

  Graham Taylor

  Soccer, Football

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• Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Simple

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• Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

  "Tuesday's football transfer rumours: Heskey to Aston Villa?" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2008.

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• One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

  Marcel Desailly

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

  David Icke

  Soccer, Football, Light

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