Footballer Quotes - Page 2

• I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

  Gary Lineker

  Night, Watches, Want

  "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Athlete

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• I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

  Arjen Robben

  Soccer, Sports, Running

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• Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

  Franck Ribery

  Football, Class, Messi

  "Ribery: Messi is in a class of his own" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com. April 21, 2013.

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• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Long, Shooting

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• Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

  Bobby Charlton

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

  Michel Patini

  Way, Streets, Best Way

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• It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

  Roberto Baggio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Running

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• There is pressure every day as a footballer.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Pressure

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

  Rinus Michels

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

  Michael Owen

  Cutting, Half, Ifs

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• We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.

  Darren Fletcher

  Real, Player, Class

  "Paul Scholes deserved more awards, says Darren Fletcher". www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.

  Harry Redknapp

  Running, Football, Player

  "A Man Walks On To a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football". Book by Harry Redknapp, October 9, 2014.

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• The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

  David Icke

  Being Yourself, Fear, Thinking

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• I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Division

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Imperfection

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

  Diego Maradona

  Motivational, Soccer, Hands

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• I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that's a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is 'rate, hike.' We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that's in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They're all good looking and they're all rich. And folks, you just can't beat that and you just can't beat Georgia Southern. And you ain't seen nothin yet!

  Erk Russell

  Beautiful, Sports, Weekend

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• To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team - spirit. That's the right attitude; that will bring you pleasure and fulfillment in football. A baker cannot live on bread he made yesterday, and a footballer cannot live on his last game. It's about the here and now.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Football, Fun, Attitude

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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