Footy Quotes:

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

- Stuart Pearce

topic: Soccer, Tunnels, Ends, Stupid Sports, Footy

Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

- Steve Lomas

topic: Funny, Soccer, Team, Soccer Player, Playing Soccer

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

- Peter Shilton

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Believe, Soccer Player, Footy

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

- John Motson

source: Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

topic: Football, Black And White, Yellow, Funny Sports, Commentators

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

- Vinnie Jones

topic: Funny, Football, Winning, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

- Johnny Giles

topic: Funny, Football, Play, Full House, Playing Soccer

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

- David Beckham

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Soccer, Ferguson, Footy

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Soccer, Wanted, Wells, Soccer Player, Footy

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

- Ugo Ehiogu

topic: Soccer, Funny Soccer, Soccer Player, Footy, Funny Football

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

- Jonathan Woodgate

topic: Soccer, Home, Years, Footy, Great Soccer

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

- Ian Rush

source: 'It Was Like Living in a Foreign Country' by Lee Honeyball, www.theguardian.com. February 06, 2005.

topic: Funny, Soccer, Football, Big Book, Soccer Player

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

- Barry Venison

topic: Soccer, Boots, Firsts, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

- David Beckham

source: "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

topic: Funny, Soccer, Football, Soccer Player, Really Stupid

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

- Ron Atkinson

topic: Funny, Basketball, Football, Referee, Stupid Sports

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

- Ron Atkinson

topic: Soccer, Football, Funny Sports, Stupid Sports, Dribble

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

- David Beckham

topic: Inspirational, Football, Parent, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

- H. L. Hunt

topic: Funny, Soccer, Believe, Soccer Player, Footy

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Done, Accusation, False Accusation, Footy, Funny Football

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

- Terry Venables

topic: Funny, Thinking, Dumb, Funniest Sports, Stupid Sports

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

- Thierry Henry

topic: Soccer, Sports, Football, Footy, Scoring Goals

I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

- Mark Viduka

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Soccer, Thinking, Champion, Inspirational Soccer, Special One

I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.

- Ade Akinbiyi

topic: Soccer, Sunday, Games, Footy

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

- Brian Clough

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Soccer, Imperfection, Footy, Best Manager

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Ignorance, Empathy, Apathy, Indifference And Apathy, Afl

I can play in the center, on the right and occasionally on the left side.

- David Beckham

topic: Funny, Sports, Play, Footy, Funny Football

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

- Gary Lineker

topic: Soccer, Funny Soccer, Footy, Soccer Football

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

- Les Ferdinand

topic: Soccer, Football, Surprise, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

- Mitchell Thomas

topic: Soccer, Dots, All That Remains, Soccer Player, Footy

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

- Lee Hendrie

topic: Soccer, Ankles, Funny Soccer, Soccer Player, Footy

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

- David Acfield

topic: Funny, Air, Dumb, Afl, Footy

I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

- Stan Collymore

topic: Soccer, Clubs, Want, Footy, Leicester

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

- Gene Simmons

source: Source: www.noise11.com

topic: Love You, Trying, World, Sydney, Cockneys

If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. It would be international news and could break the fabric of a club

- Jason Akermanis

topic: Believe, Good Luck, Player, Afl, Footy

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

- Max Walker

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Art, Creative, Footy

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

- Max Walker

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Football, Clubs, Facts, Football Clubs, Footy

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

- James Hird

topic: Integrity, Character, Men, Great Person, Footy

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.

- Ben Nicholas

topic: Games, Firsts, Scene, Footy