Soccer Quotes - Page 30

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

The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.

The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

We are really the victims of our own problems

If England had scored in the first half, I think the young legs would have found younger hearts inside them

Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

What is your position at the company? Right back.

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.

The acoustics seem to get louder

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.