Vervoort Soccer Quotes

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. ~ Haruki Murakami

I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***! ~ Harry Redknapp

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. ~ Stanley Rous

I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking. ~ Martin O'Neill

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent. ~ Neil Warnock

In 1972, my idol Gordon Banks was seriously injured in a car accident and lost an eye. He was still England goalkeeper and the world's Number One. I was absolutely gutted for Banksie. His career was over prematurely. He did make a comeback in America for a time, but he said he felt like people were coming to watch a bit of a circus act: 'Roll up, roll up! The world's only one-eyed goalkeeper.' And so he retired from football for good. When he lost his eye, I wanted to give him one of mine, that's how much I thought of him. ~ Stephen Richards

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one. ~ Tony Adams

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. ~ Mike Royko

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. ~ Alex Ferguson

When a player gets to 30, so does his body ~ Glenn Hoddle

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. ~ Harry Sinden

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence ~ Alan Green

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer. ~ Will Ferrell

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm. ~ Joe Royle

That lad must have been born offside. ~ Alex Ferguson

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball. ~ Steve Nash

This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good. ~ Daniel Taylor

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women. ~ Julie Foudy

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do. ~ Roy Keane

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere. ~ Arsene Wenger

you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don't make that much difference. ~ Simon Kuper

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. ~ Lorrie Fair

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill. ~ Eamon Dunphy

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football. ~ Arsene Wenger

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer. ~ Brett Hull

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six ~ Fred Dinenage

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on. ~ Mick Jagger

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job. ~ Brian Clough

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls! ~ Brian Clough

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer. ~ Nelson Mandela

When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up. ~ Chris Waddle

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno ~ Ian Darke

saying Daphne was a worrywart was like saying soccer players' legs were a thing of jaw-dropping, panty-melting goodness. It was just a fact of life. ~ Avery Flynn