Great Quotes in football

[dor02]

"Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running around the pitch playing with themselves."That quote is priceless. Disgusting but funny.:)

Great stuff with the quotes, unclesox.

[unclesox]

IAN HOLLOWAY (ex-?) QPR boss

"I reckon the ball was travelling at 400mph, and I bet it burned the keeper's eyebrows off."

"I mean no respect to Donatella. I'm sure she would not be flattered to hear she looks like Marc Bircham."

"I've got to get Dan Shittu ready for the Stoke game. I've told him to go to Iceland and ask if he can sit in one of their freezers."

"To the people who booed - boo to you!"

"When my mum was running our house, when I was a kid, all the money was put into tins. She knew what was in every tin and I know how much I've got in my tin - that's the way we'll run this club."

"Look at the prickly little fella down the road at Chelsea. He wants to win everything and we can learn from that. If there were two flies crawling up the wall he'd be desperate to back the winner."

... on Marc Nygaard
"When my wife first saw Marc for the first time, she said he was a fine specimen of a man. She says I have nothing to worry about, but I think she wants me to buy her a QPR shirt with his name on the back for Christmas."

"Anybody who is a QPR fan is welcome at Loftus Road. I'd be happy for him to turn up for a kickabout, just so long as he brings that Kate Moss with him - she's absolutely lovely."

"I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season."

And his most famous one from last season...

"Right now, everything is going wrong for me - if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb!"

[nicephoras]

“If there’s a fight on the pitch, then I always run straight over if it’s not too far. Mostly I don’t need to, because I’m involved.”

Fernando Ricksen

[argentine soccer fan]

Obdulio Varela: (Asked before the 1950 final match of the WC if he feared the daunting Brazilian forward line):

'Fear them? (laughing). Gentlemen, you forget that you are speaking to a man who has often played against Adolfo Pedernera.'

[toohyper]

"I once said Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number and he asked me: 'What's an IQ?'"---George Best on Paul Gascoigne

[DerMongerer]

Johan Cryuff lamenting Holland's elimination at EURO 2000 by Italy:

"Italy cannot beat you, but you can lose to Italy".

[dor02]

Johan Cryuff lamenting Holland's elimination at EURO 2000 by Italy:

"Italy cannot beat you, but you can lose to Italy".Cryuff is a sore loser. He just can't stand losing to Italian teams.

Here's a Paolo Rossi quote about Holland at the 1978 World Cup:

"The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee."

[Pints]

I submit for your approval Ray Hudson:

"Without penetration, it's just masturbation, and right now, we're playing with ourselves." - DC United head coach Ray Hudson, discussing his team's inability to score goals.

"This isn't a scientific thing…sometimes you just need a little luck…unfortunately, Lady Luck keeps showing us her big, ugly ass." - Hudson, right after DC tied at home for the third consecutive game.

"He's a competitor. . . . He'd stab his grandmother in the eyes just for another bowl of porridge." - Ray Hudson, describing the sometimes questionable style of play from Dema Kovalenko.

"A blind man on a galloping horse can see his talent. He’s a little Faberge egg." Ray Hudson, on Freddy Adu

"We had just strung like 17 passes together, beautiful silky soccer, and I turn around and see a guy yawning in the crowd. I wanted to jump over the fence and head-butt him." Ray Hudson

"I'm higher than a hippie at Woodstock" -Ray Hudson




- I am sure ther even better ones than that.

[utellme]

10 out freaking ten Pints!!!
Hysterical,passionate and ballz out.
Hudson always tells it like we all feel it...always has.
There are hundreds of others I know because people always bring up their own favorites when he is calling games on Goltv.
There was a real impressive list of "Hudson-isms" somewhere on here.
Great stuff.

[lanman]

Another from Cloughie, this one his first speech to the Leeds players having just been appointed manager.

"Gentlemen, the first thing you can do for me is throw your medals and your pots and pans in the dustbin because you've never won anything fairly. You've done it by cheating."

He lasted 44 days in the job.

[benni...]

Anyone have the quote of Johann Cruyuff, talking about playing the English?

[DerMongerer]

"Just hearing the name Real Madrid make me want to vomit." - Tempermental FC Barcelona legend Hristo Stoitchkov

[Bertje]

The more time you have, the more mistakes you wil make. - Ruud Gullit
Football is simple, trainers shouldn't make it so complicated. - Johan Cruijff
Football is simple, but the hardest thing to do, is playing simple football. - Johan Cruijff
Football is simple(I'm sure you didn't see that one coming). You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner. - Johan Cruijff

[Twenty26Six]

The more time you have, the more mistakes you wil make. - Ruud Gullit
Football is simple, trainers shouldn't make it so complicated. - Johan Cruijff
Football is simple, but the hardest thing to do, is playing simple football. - Johan Cruijff
Football is simple(I'm sure you didn't see that one coming). You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner. - Johan Cruijff

They are all right though. From the lowest youth ranks to the highest levels, there are always a great number of players who complicate the game.

[Bertje]

Ofcourse they are right! Who am I to argue with El Salvador?:D

[Gregoriak]

Journalist asks coach Berti Vogts what he thinks of players having sex before the game. Berti: "I don't mind it before the game, but I won't tolerate any of it during half time break".

[Bertje]

Journalist asks coach Berti Vogts what he thinks of players having sex before the game. Berti: "I don't mind it before the game, but I won't tolerate any of it during half time break".

The one about the Germans midfield is also great. "They(don't remember what team) will try to hit anything that moves, so our midfield should be safe."

Brilliant. :D

[The Potter]

Journalist asks coach Berti Vogts what he thinks of players having sex before the game. Berti: "I don't mind it before the game, but I won't tolerate any of it during half time break".


McBerti absoloute legend.

[Twenty26Six]

Some LFC Quotes...

"Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second." Bob Paisley

"Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves." Bill Shankly

"The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!" Bill Shankly

[argentine soccer fan]

Brazilian great Dirceu, about his time playing in Mexico: 'I would pass them a ball, and they'd return me a watermelon.'