Football Quotes

“My goal was to make the other guy not want to play against me again.”

“You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.”

“Football is a simple game, made complicated by people who should know better.”

“We're not the best team in the world, but we're the best team in Ireland.”

“In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.”

“The pressure at a club like Manchester United is relentless.”

“The first 90 minutes are the most important.”

“It's far more difficult to be a manager than a player.”

“The best thing about it is that I am a Scot and he is a Scot. It doesn't get any better than that.”

“The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.”

“Homophobia is the last taboo in football.”

“Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.”

“It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.”

“But I have to say that the best save I ever made was from a penalty kick against Geoff Hurst.”

“You've got to be brave to be a goalkeeper.”

“Playing for your country is the greatest honour a player can have.”

“When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.”

“The whole point of football is to score goals. Goals are to football what a punchline is to a joke. The rest is just build-up.”

“Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.”

“I love the game of football. I love being a part of it.”