Soccer Quotes - Page 8

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

When you're surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field.

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.