Soccer Quotes - Page 50

I'm too tired to speak in English.

And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches

Notting Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

Pelé was a complete player. I didn't see him live obviously, because I wasn't born.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

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?

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

I don't like being alone.

It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.

For me, he is an exceptional player.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

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.

He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.

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

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.