Soccer Quotes - Page 3

• I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

  Usain Bolt

  Football, Thinking, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  War, Marine, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ronaldo can do whatever he wants as a footballer. There are some things he does with the ball that make me touch my head and wonder how he did it.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Doe, Balls, Want

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• The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

  Cobi Jones

  Thinking, Games, Wow

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• We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.

  Steven Gerrard

  Thinking, Hands, Here I Am

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

  J. B. Priestley

  Men, Two, Twenties

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

  Eric Cantona

  Passion, People, Loses

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Heart, People

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• I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

  Rod Stewart

  Football, Stars, Rocks

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• Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Hands, Sometimes

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• Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

  Roger Staubach

  Motivational, Confidence, Football

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• Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Mom, Thinking, Mail

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• When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

  Pele

  Football, Stars, Team

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• Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

  Brian Clough

  Winning, Player, Playing Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Soccer is a magical game.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Games

  "David Beckham Pays Tribute to Legendary Pelé". people.com. March 20, 2008.

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• I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Player, Waiting

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• If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sarcastic, Football

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• Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

  Johan Cruijff

  Motivational, Running, Confused

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• The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

  Diego Maradona

  Motivational, Hands, Goal

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• Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

  Ronaldo

  Motivational, Football, School

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• The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

  Alan Curbishley

  Football, Player, Decision

  "Alan Curbishley resigns as West Ham manager" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2008.

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• An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

  Eric Cantona

  Eye, Dark, Artist

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• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Sports, Thinking, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Dream, Team, Player

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• There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Football, Footy

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