Soccer Quotes - Page 30

• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  New Year, Football, Home

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• I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

  Rupert Lowe

  Football, Media, Land

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• The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Football, Team, School

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• I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Thinking, Media

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• So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

  Frank Skinner

  Football, Men, Media

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• According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

  Nick Hancock

  Football, Ocean, Media

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• Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

  Phil Cornwell

  Football, Tunnels, Media

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• The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

  Kevin Williams

  Football, Player, Media

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• As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

  Karren Brady

  Football, Media, Wife

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• Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Football, Media, Dancer

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• The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

  Kasey Keller

  Football, Art, Media

  "Last night's TV" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2006.

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• Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

  Giles Smith

  Football, Stars, Crazy

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• I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

  Pete Wentz

  Play, Serendipity, Different

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• Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

  Pete Wentz

  Adventure, Breathing, Interesting

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• I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.

  Elizabeth Heyert

  Mom, Thinking, Careers

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• ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.

  Jay Leno

  Sports, Watches, Way

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• We don't sign superstars, we make them.

  Arsene Wenger

  Superstar, Arsenal

  "Wenger: We Don't Sign Superstars, We Make Them". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 01, 2007.

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• In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Player, Balls

  "À sombra das chuteiras imortais: crônicas de futebol" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Publicado por Companhia das Letras, (p. 102), 1993.

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• My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.

  Ferran Adria

  Player, Idols, Kitchen

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• I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Islands, Fancy

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• Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Ebola, Years, America

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• Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eye, Russia, Support

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• To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Media, Fans

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• Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

  George Boateng

  Football, Religious, Player

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• In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

  Anne Robinson

  Country, Football, Media

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