Top 1200 English Football Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

I always think if you are not a hard worker, you will get nowhere in English football.

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.

For me to live in England and be part of English football is the maximum of this life.

I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

It had always been about America, but now, sorry, they lag behind us. English football's time is coming.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here - family, friends - but I'm very happy in England, with the way of life we have and with English football.

I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.

Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.

I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

I always watched a lot of English football. It has always been really strong.

English football pleases me a lot. It's the most keenly contested.

English football is very offensive, all about fast attacks, and I like that.

I'm passionate about English football; it's lived in a special way, unique.

There is no doubt English football is very big, with huge visibility.

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though

The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.

I like English football very much. It is truly one of the best leagues in the world.

The Premier League is very competitive, the English are very passionate about football.

I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

I have always had the dream to play in English football and now I'm going to make it true.

My first season in English football was very special. I hope to go on to achieve even more as a Chelsea player.

I've learned to adapt to the pace of the English game and a different style of football in the Premier League.

Being tall isn't what makes you a good footballer, and I don't think that's the defining factor in English football at all.

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.

It's essential to be able to communicate in English, to talk to my team-mates and then in my personal life outside the football.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.

I used to watch English football on TV when I was younger in Brazil. I already knew it was a dynamic, competitive and fast way of playing. When I got here, I just confirmed all of that.

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

It was always a dream and goal of mine to try out in English football.

I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.

I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

Ever since I started watching Premier League, I found English football very appealing.

My English might not be good enough to talk politics but there is no difficulty if we are talking about football.

I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.

I've watched quite a few matches to understand English football.

God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was

I'm trying to know every part of London, to improve my English and enjoy the football. On my days off, I go to different parts of the city.

When it comes to understanding how to talk in English about football, I always watch 'Match of the Day.'

It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!