Football Quotes - Page 3

• They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.

  Nasser Hussain

  Winning, Goal, Used

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• Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

  Ray Wilkins

  Feet, Kicking

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• That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.

  Brian Marwood

  Goal

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• Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.

  Dion Dublin

  Knee Injuries, Knees, Faces

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• Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

  Kevin Keegan

  Thinking, Legs, Throwing

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• He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

  Bobby Robson

  Yards, Newcastle United, Ifs

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• The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sock, Ran, Lad

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• He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Funny Sports, Faces

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• I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

  Paul Merson

  Team, Thinking, Wells

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• If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

  Graeme Souness

  Winning, Cities, League

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• And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

  Jimmy Hill

  Rays, Cold

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• The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

  Steve Rider

  Looks, Want, Cups

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• I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

  Andy Gray

  Goalies, Legs, Vulnerable

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• Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

  Trevor Brooking

  Different, Today, Lasts

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• Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

  Lynn Swann

  Running, Distance, Athlete

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• My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

  E. J. Holub

  Fighting, Knives, Nfl

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• What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

  Lynn Dickey

  Nfl, Ships, Sinking

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• You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Nfl, Kind, Numb

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• The Refrigerator" Perry: "I've been big ever since I was little.

  Prince William

  Nfl, Littles, Refrigerators

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

  George Will

  America, Citizens, Sin

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

  Irwin Shaw

  Gun, Player, Crowds

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• Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Team, Player

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• He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Nice, Guy, Too Much

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• There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

  Dean Cain

  Hard Work, Play, Succeed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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