Soccer Quotes - Page 40

• I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Cutting, Thinking

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• Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Strong, Made

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• I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Winning, Player

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• I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.

  Arsene Wenger

  Beautiful, Football, Home

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• It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Atmosphere, Different

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• The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Mad, Goal

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• Nine months of misery.

  Steve Coppell

  Football, Months, Nine

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• I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

  Neil Warnock

  Football, President, Remember

  "Warnock - mad as chips" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2002.

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• I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

  Kevin Bond

  Football, England, Realising

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• A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

  Nigel Worthington

  Football, Games, Sides

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• It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Lifeboats, Chairman

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• What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, War, Chairman

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• It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.

  Steve Coppell

  Football, Luck, Kevin

  "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

  Tony Adams

  Football, Emotional, Decision

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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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• On current form, both teams will probably lose.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Football, Team, Form

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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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• If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Asking, Excuse

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• I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Numbers, People

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Thinking, Goes On

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• I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

  Martin Jol

  Football, People, Criticism

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• Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Stupid, Sides

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• I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Sitting, Nightmare

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• I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

  Martin O'Neill

  Football, Winning, Games

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