Player Quotes - Page 10

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

  Shay Given

  Soccer, Football, Goal

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• Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Soccer, Football, Barcelona

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• Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Football, Yards

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Division

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• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  B. B. King

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

  Ruud Gullit

  Determination, Eye, Winning

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• Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

  Ruud Gullit

  Football, Athlete

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• I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.

  Skip Bertman

  Baseball, College, Class

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Swings, Iron, Guy

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• I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Thinking, People

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• I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

  Fred Couples

  Thinking, Swings, Self

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• If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

  Gordie Howe

  Hockey, Want, Has Beens

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• English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Way, Dominant

  "The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Differences

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• Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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