Soccer Quotes - Page 14

• If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

  Roy Keane

  Football, Player, Ifs

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• Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

  Shania Twain

  Football, Player, People

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Football, Hard Work, Player

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• Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

  Rod Liddle

  Football, Boys, Player

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• How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

  Johnny Giles

  Football, Team, Player

  "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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• The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.

  Phil Cornwell

  Football, Couple, Mistake

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• Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

  Martin O'Neill

  Football, Player, Goal

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• Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

  Pete Gill

  Football, Player, Existence

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• A holocaust of an afternoon.

  Carlton Palmer

  Football, Player, Holocaust

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• There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Player, Age

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• Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

  Pete Gill

  Football, Player, Anchors

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• It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Regret, Team

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• A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

  Pete Gill

  Football, Player, Ordinary

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• Is he ever going to learn?

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Player

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• Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Football, Stupid, Player

  "Tuesday's football transfer rumours: Heskey to Aston Villa?" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2008.

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• One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

  Marcel Desailly

  Football, Team, Rain

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• The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

  David Icke

  Football, Player, Light

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• Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Football, Player, Barcelona

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• The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

  Joe Royle

  Football, Player, Trouble

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Football, Player, Division

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• The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

  Rafael Benitez

  Player, Differences, Quality

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• We know that we are close to making history.

  Lionel Messi

  Making History, Knows

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• I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

  Lionel Messi

  Mind, Special, Shirts

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• I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

  Lionel Messi

  Country, Men, Alive

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• I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, Years, Play

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