Soccer Quotes - Page 40

• We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing him cry nearly got me going too.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Heart, Games, Play

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• He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his feet in no time and getting on with it. He is a strong character and a great sight when he's heading for goal.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Strong, Character, Sight

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• For me, he is an exceptional player.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Player, Exceptional

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• English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Powerful, Believe, Player

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• When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Desire, Pace, Boost

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

  Arsene Wenger

  Winning

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• Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Grandma, Moving

  Michelle Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Games, Two, People

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• Red Bull is committed to providing not only quality domestic soccer, but also quality international soccer. You can't get much better than Barcelona. Our entire organization is excited about the opportunity to play one of the premier teams in the world.

  Alexi Lalas

  Team, Opportunity, Play

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• Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Rambo, Film

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• The crowd in Atlanta was amazing the last time we played there. They were enthusiastic, engaged in the game and were happy to be there. They are excited about soccer.

  Kelley O'Hara

  Atlanta, Games, Crowds

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• If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

  Gail Kelly

  Business, Women, School

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• I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

  Bryan Ferry

  Football, Stars, Thinking

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• It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved

  Vivian Reddy

  Country, Two, Cost

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• Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

  Peter Bruce

  Police, May, Threatening

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• I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

  Kevin Woods

  Crime, Sane, Know How

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

  Simon Barnes

  Football, Analysis, Clubs

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• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

  Simon Barnes

  Beautiful, Football, Art

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• I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.

  Giles Smith

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding heights of the Conference. The wide points gap between first and second says we are about to witness the return to the football league of Accrington Stanley. So legendary have they become that everyone across the generations knows them, yet even those of the certain age required (you'd be pushing 60) can scarcely believe they were ever there. What proof do we have that this most Garcia Marquez of football teams was, is and yet may truly be?

  Peter Chapman

  Football, Team, Believe

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• This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

  Daniel Taylor

  Football, Hockey, Ice

  "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.

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• I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

  Archie Macpherson

  Football, August, Finals

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• I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

  Vinnie Paz

  Mom, Rap, Kids

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• If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.

  Christopher West

  Mom, Reality, Want

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