Soccer Quotes - Page 38

• In a year's time, he's a year older.

  Bobby Robson

  Years

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• It was a big relief off my shoulder.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Relief, Bigs, Shoulders

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• All human history moves towards one great goal

  James Joyce

  Moving, Goal, Humans

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.35, GENERAL PRESS

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• I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

  Lilian Thuram

  Motivational, Player, Needs

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• Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

  Arsene Wenger

  Strong, Fighting, Temptation

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• If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

  Robert Hughes

  Football, Team, Skills

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• Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

  Ian St John

  Football, Goal, Balls

  Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John (2009). “Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

  Alan Jackson

  Blue, People, Red

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• I don't hold water with that theory

  Ron Greenwood

  Water, Funny Soccer, Theory

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• When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

  Julian Sands

  Football, Zoos, Moving

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• I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

  David Blunkett

  Football, Incarnation, Coaches

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Football, Tomorrow, Former Life

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• On current form, both teams will probably lose.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Football, Team, Form

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• I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

  Terry Butcher

  Football, Winning, Tree

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• He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Football, Fit, Chairman

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• Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Winning, Player

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• In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

  Nicky Campbell

  Beautiful, Football, Hate

  "Mugging up on a long lost devotion to the United of old" by Nicky Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2006.

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• Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

  J. B. Priestley

  Football, Player, Games

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• It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

  Matthew Engel

  Football, Sex, Player

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• Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

  Edward Smith

  Sports, Football, Ideas

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• All I know of morality I learned from football

  Albert Camus

  Football, Analysis, Morality

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• It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Football, Character, Yield

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• You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Strong, Team

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• However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Team, Fighting

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• England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, World, England

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