Soccer Quotes - Page 32

• We live for games like these.

  Alex McLeish

  Football, Games, Chairman

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• It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

  Mick McCarthy

  Football, Monkeys, Apes

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• We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

  Ken Bates

  Wise, Football, Player

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• Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Attitude, Holiday

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• A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

  Delia Smith

  Football, Men, Needs

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• The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

  Ron Noades

  Football, Team, Player

  "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2002.

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• I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Player, Tape

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• I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in foreign. I knew they were saying "Blah, blah, blah, le bastard manager..."

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Couple, Talking

  "Said & Done" by Davis Hills, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2004.

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• One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Taken, Golf

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• Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

  John Gregory

  Football, Stress, Years

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• Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Dog, Morning

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• I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

  Sam Allardyce

  Football, Santa, Chairman

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• I've not had to ask permission from Geraldine to take the job. I'm one of the few men in this life who are not under the thumb. I'm stronger than that. Did she want me out of the house? Listen, she's wanted me out of the house for the past 27 years and has often asked me not to come back again. But I always show up, and really, she can't do without me, because I'm brilliant.

  Martin O'Neill

  Football, Jobs, Past

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• You might as well talk to my baby daughter. You'll get more sense out of her

  Kenny Dalglish

  Daughter, Football, Baby

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• Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Football, Nice, Two

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Winning, Games

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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• They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

  Steve Bruce

  Football, Backsides, Chairman

  "Quotes of the year" by Peter Bainbridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2008.

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• David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

  Glenn Roeder

  Football, Thinking, Giving

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• Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Football, Outbreaks, Bubonic Plague

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• Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

  Berti Vogts

  Football, Scotland, Missing

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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

  Football, Jobs, Men

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• There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Men, Years

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

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• There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

  Robbie Savage

  Football, Moon, Flying

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• I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

  Fabio Capello

  Football, Rain, Wind

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