Soccer Quotes - Page 15

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

I do believe in fate.

We lost because we didn't win.

The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.

You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.