Fifa Quotes

• Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

  Sepp Blatter

  Play, Discipline, Our Society

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

  Vladimir Putin

  Soccer, Football, Philosophy

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 1, 2010.

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• FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

  Sepp Blatter

  Beautiful, Football, Games

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• What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Jobs, Effort

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• The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

  Pele

  Football, Example, World

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• I love playing FIFA on my PlayStation!

  Tiesto

  Playstation

  Interview with Sterling Mcgarvey, www.ign.com. August 10, 2006.

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• I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Years, Games, Fans

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field.

  Ronaldinho

  Soccer, Opportunity, Games

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• We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Mud, Reputation

  "Fifa President: 'It Has to Stop Here and Now'". www.usatoday.com. May 28, 2015.

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• Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Greed, World

  " Blatter rails against 'football's greedy'" by Timothy Sturtridge, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2005.

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• It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Impact, Important

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• If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

  Roger Milla

  Football, Hands, Body

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.

  Giovani Bernard

  Football, Real, Team

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• I Don't Care About FIFA. This is bullshit.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Bullshit, Care, I Don't Care

  Source: lybio.net

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• I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

  Bryan Swanson

  Host, Accepting, Conjunctions

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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• I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

  Nate Robinson

  Soccer, Player, Nba

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• A green, Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| replica watches|renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future - it is now. It is creating jobs - now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil - now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act - now.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Pie, Creating

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• Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Country, Peace

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• This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament...I'm totally in.

  Alexi Lalas

  World, Cups, Firsts

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• I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it.

  Luis Figo

  Football, Past, Years

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• The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.

  Luke Wilson

  Summer, Soccer, Country

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• If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to rise for powerful sports. Now what does that tell you? It tells you that the demand amongst global and local sponsors for these kinds of sports is immense, even if there is controversy attached to them like FIFA - who would definitely be number one on that list, though F1 has also been somewhat controversial.

  Martin Sorrell

  Sports, Powerful, Rights

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

  Michel Patini

  Years, Two, Three

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