Keyword: Soccer

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

Scottish football player & manager

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

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

1972 – ) American soccer player

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.

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

British football manager

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

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.

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


Injuries above the neck don’t count.

Australian football coach

Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.

Scottish football player & manager

They are a either a pain in the backside or too drunk to perform.

Amsterdam prostitutes’ spokeswoman

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

English football player & manager

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