Soccer Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Football, Team, Rain

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• We know that we are close to making history.

  Lionel Messi

  Making History, Knows

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• I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

  Fabio Capello

  Numbers, Finals, Records

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• When you're surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Flower, Breaths

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• I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

  Arsene Wenger

  Jobs, Distance, Looks

  "Arsène Wenger dismisses personal landmark to focus on AZ Alkmaar" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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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

  Football, Player, Anchors

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• I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

  Steven Gerrard

  Frustration, Suffering, Share

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

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

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Player, Age

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• A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

  Pete Gill

  Football, Player, Ordinary

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• Is he ever going to learn?

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Player

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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

  Football, Player, Light

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

  Cesc Fabregas

  Football, Player, Barcelona

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• The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

  Joe Royle

  Football, Player, Trouble

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• The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

  Rafael Benitez

  Player, Differences, Quality

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• I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

  Lionel Messi

  Mind, Special, Shirts

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• I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

  Lionel Messi

  Country, Men, Alive

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• I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, Years, Play

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• We have demonstrated that we are the best, I'm also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I've heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, People, World

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• It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, Crazy, Winning

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• I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.

  Zinedine Zidane

  People, Proud, Madrid

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• I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.

  Xabi Alonso

  Impossible

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• As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.

  Xabi Alonso

  Fighting, Long, Possibility

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• We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

  Xabi Alonso

  Winning

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• We are not ourselves anymore, we've lost a little something.

  Fabio Capello

  Littles, Lost

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• There are some nights when everything goes your way and some when it doesn't, and this wasn't our game. I was most disappointed with our lack of aggression as that is normally one of our characteristics.

  Fabio Capello

  Night, Games, Way

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