Football Quotes - Page 32

• You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

  David Pleat

  Biscuits, Sometimes, Fortune

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ . . . ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Goal, Doubt

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• Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Player, England, Balls

  "Sven: My Story". Book by Sven-Göran Eriksson, www.telegraph.co.uk. 2013.

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• I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

  Xabi Alonso

  Home, Player, Style

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

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• Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

  Johan Cruijff

  Sports, Home, Titles

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• The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

  Jorge Valdano

  Coffee, Smell, Sunrise

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• Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  College, Needs, Vanderbilt

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• Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.

  Emmitt Smith

  Games, Car, People

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• Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

  Steve Sailer

  Revenge, School, Player

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• The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Basketball, Games, Priorities

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• Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Mistake, Games, Loses

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• A day without football is a day lost.

  Ernst Happel

  Lost

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• People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

  Ernst Happel

  Player, Games, Ideas

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• I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

  Trevor Brooking

  Country, Pride, Player

  "Reports of Peter Crouch England retirement amaze Sir Trevor Brooking". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.

  Vinnie Jones

  Weather, Care, Faces

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• Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?!

  Stephen Colbert

  Bowls

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

  Jerry Kramer

  Responsibility, Player, People

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• Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

  Simon Jordan

  Sports, Jobs, Son

  "Rommedahl rewards Charlton's patience" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2004.

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• For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

  Johan Cruijff

  Children, Role Models, Messi

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• I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

  Bobby Charlton

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dust, Clouds, Three

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• If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

  Manny Montana

  Dream, Would Be, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

  Cris Collinsworth

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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