Keyword: Soccer

We get carried away with coaches and coaching. I have my coaching badges, but they came out of a Cornflakes packet at the time.

English football player & manager
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We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

English football player & manager
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A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.


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You may be right, but it hasn’t reached his legs yet!

Scottish football player & manager
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If Stan (Bowles) could pass a betting shop like he can pass a ball he’d have no trouble at all.

British football manager
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Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.

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Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.

Scottish football player & manager
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Being thick isn’t an affliction if you’re a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he’s brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife – lovingly, with caresses.

English football player & manager
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death… I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Scottish football player & manager
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We’re not afraid of challenges. It’s like we always say: if you want to go out in the rain, be prepared to get burned.

Mixed metaphors Sports

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.

1972 – ) American soccer player
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They are a either a pain in the backside or too drunk to perform.

Amsterdam prostitutes’ spokeswoman
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Injuries above the neck don’t count.

Australian football coach
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