Football Quotes

“The referee's got me the sack. Thank him ever so much for that, won't you?”

“The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.”

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

“The punt is the most important play in football.”

“The ball is like a bloody magnet. It will come to you, you don't have to go looking for it.”

“Playing for Liverpool is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“He's got a lovely left foot, so I'll be looking for him to get down the wing and whip in some of those delicious far-post crosses with his right foot.”

“The problem with Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in.”

“I want to just let the four horsemen of the apocalypse loose.”

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

“We're going to hit you. We're going to hit you hard. And we're going to keep hitting you.”

“The keeper was certainly handicapped by having two hands.”

“It's like a train, this qualifying campaign. We are on the right track, but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.”

“You have to be a little bit of a masochist to be a quarterback.”

“We've got to protect the quarterback. It's a quarterback-driven league.”

“It's a game of emotion. It's a game of passion.”

“The crowd at Old Trafford were always great to me.”

“And what a time to do it! One minute to go!”

“There is only one ball, so you need to have it.”

“To be fair, the two Belgian defenders, Kompany and Vermaelen, are absolutely outstanding.”