Top 533 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soccer players - Page 3

When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.

WE HAD AN AMAZING STAY AT SURF AND SUNSET VILLA. THE WHOLE FAMILY REALLY ENJOYED THE HOLIDAY AND THE SURF WAS GREAT!

The market is now factoring in that first-quarter earnings will likely be below consensus. And the reality is that economic growth is probably going to be between 3.5 percent and 4 percent, which is good but maybe not as strong as what some people were hoping for.

Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

It's a risk-reward thing. If I do go out and try and play and get hurt again, then I'm definitely out. I've got no chance to go. If I'm ready, then great. It's getting better. I've been doing a lot more in the last couple of days. I've got a day off (on Wednesday) and then hope to come back in on Thursday and really see where I am at and test it out. Hopefully I'm going to play this weekend but, in reality, we'll see.

When I then went to Welling I had to think about the possibility of getting another job outside of football. If that hadn't worked out then I would probably have joined the family building firm, working as a ‘brickie’ or something like that. It is a big leap to be playing in the Champions League final - the biggest game of my career - but after what I've been through to get here, it holds no fears for me.

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.

If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I am not taking legal action against any team-mate.

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.

The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important to keep beer fun, relevant and in step with the changing preferences of adults who enjoy beer.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.

In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

Where ever fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

Art without knowledge is nothing!

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

Beer is an improvement on water itself.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!

I don't want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect.

I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

There are no heroes in chess.

I did not think I would make the grade.

Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

I've seen first-hand the great enthusiasm Portland has for soccer; it's a soccer-smart fan base that generates an incredible atmosphere. I am very much looking forward to the first season of Thorns FC.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.