Soccer Quotes - Page 34

• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  New Year, Football, Home

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• I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

  Rupert Lowe

  Football, Media, Land

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• The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Football, Team, School

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• I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Thinking, Media

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• So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

  Frank Skinner

  Football, Men, Media

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• According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

  Nick Hancock

  Football, Ocean, Media

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• Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

  Phil Cornwell

  Football, Tunnels, Media

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• The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

  Kevin Williams

  Football, Player, Media

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• As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

  Karren Brady

  Football, Media, Wife

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• Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Football, Media, Dancer

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• The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

  Kasey Keller

  Football, Art, Media

  "Last night's TV" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2006.

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• Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

  Giles Smith

  Football, Stars, Crazy

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• My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

  Juliet Mills

  Husband, Team, Cat

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• If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

  Lorrie Fair

  Team, School, Hands

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• I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

  Neil Diamond

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• [H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

  Nick Hornby

  Female, Finals, Campaigns

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• And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

  Parminder Nagra

  Baseball, Football, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

  Parminder Nagra

  Girl, League, Young

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• But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

  Parminder Nagra

  Thinking, Television, Levels

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

  Simon Kuper

  Sports, Country, Caring

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• Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

  Stephen Chow

  Children, Two, Kung Fu

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• He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. 'So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?'

  Stephanie Davis

  Girlfriend, Mean, Hands

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• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

  Wally Schirra

  Football, Equipment, American Football

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• One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

  Al Kaline

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

  Andres Iniesta

  Team, Player, Fields

  "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.

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