Football Quotes

“You have to be tough to be a right-back.”

“There's no such thing as second-and-long.”

“Hang half a hundred on 'em.”

“My job is to protect, preserve, and grow the game.”

“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.”

“I was an entertainer. That's what I did. I entertained.”

“I can't get away from the game. I love the game. I don't know what I would do without it.”

“I've got a World Cup winner's medal. Not many people have one of them.”

“When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average. So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you’re a good player or not.”

“My record is not going to be beaten because the man who wants to beat it will have to score two goals per game.”

“You have to have a short memory as a quarterback.”

“The first 90 minutes are the most important.”

“It's a game of blocking and tackling. The team that does that the best is going to win.”

“You can't defend that, it's undefendable.”

“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!”

“They gave me the ball, and I scored. It was simple.”

“Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors wins.”

“The modern footballer is a complicated species.”

“If I was a little bit younger I would love to play in this team.”

“Homophobia is the last taboo in football.”