Soccer Quotes - Page 15

• Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.

  Stephen Hunt

  Football, Player, Men

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• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  Mark Zupan

  Hurt, College, Achievement

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• Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

  Mark Zupan

  Hard Work, Player, College

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• I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

  Bob Paisley

  Effort, Trophies, Sides

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• Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Team, Hippie, Party

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

  Jud Tylor

  Brother, Games, Play

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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

  Football, Hard Work, Player

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• Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

  Fernando Torres

  Football, Holiday, Player

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• I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

  Patrice Evra

  Football, Rip, Taken

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• People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.

  Jonathan Woodgate

  Football, Team, Believe

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• You were only a goalkeeper.

  Diego Maradona

  Football, Player, Goalkeepers

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• When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

  Paul Merson

  Football, Player, Hello

  "Merson cashes in on McGhee's peace offering" by Mark Tallentire, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2003.

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• Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Football, Player, Forgive Me

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• David James is a cretin.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Football, Player

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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

  Football, Couple, Mistake

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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

  Football, Player, Goal

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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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• Is he ever going to learn?

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Player

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• A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

  Pete Gill

  Football, Player, Ordinary

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

  Tommy Docherty

  Football, Player, Division

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• We know that we are close to making history.

  Lionel Messi

  Making History, Knows

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

  Cesc Fabregas

  Football, Player, Barcelona

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• How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

  Johnny Giles

  Football, Team, Player

  "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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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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