Franz Beckenbauer on Bayern's players "They are all like prostitutes; they smoke, they're lazy, and they sleep all day." "You just can't zig zig shoot!" (meaning to say zig-zag) - my old Macedonian soccer coach
Lineker: SO GORDON, IF YOU WERE ENG**SH, WHAT FORMATION WOULD YOU USE? Strachan: IF I WAS ENG**SH I'D TOP MYSELF!
Here's a quote before Portugal's World Cup semi-final against France from Ricardo, the Portuguese goalie: "The secret here is to score one more goal than them."
''we were confused,after our opponents had one of their players sent off'' Vassilis Daniel(former national team's coach)explaining the reasons of a 2-4 defeat by the Germans in Athens,in a 2002 world cup qualification match!!!!!!
Andreas Möller: „Mailand oder Madrid - Hauptsache Italien!“ Milan or Madrid – anyway, the main thing is it’s Italy. Berti Vogts: “Hass gehört nicht ins Stadion. Solche Gefühle soll man gemeinsam mit seiner Frau daheim im Wohnzimmer ausleben.“ Hatred doesn’t belong in a football stadium. You should act out these feelings with your wife at home in the living room. Berti Vogts: “Das Spielfeld war zu lang für Doppelpässe.“ The field was too long for give-and-go.
"I thought at the time it was a beautiful goal, now I want to go and watch it on the TV to see how magical it really was." Argentina striker Hernan Crespo about his team's 24-pass wonder-goal against Serbia & Montenegro. "Let's face it, they never like the ball. The only time they would be happy is if it was square and heavy." Bruce Arena dismissing goalkeepers' concerns over the new ball for the World Cup. "A miracle to be here?, No, we just came by plane." Trinidad and Tobago Coach Leo Beenhakker when he was asked if it was a miracle that his team was at the World Cup. "Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five." Trinidad & Tobago coach Leo Beenhakker The closest I got to him was when we shook hands at the end of the game. Northampton player Roy Fairfax, who marked Best when he scored six goals in an 8-2 FA Cup win for Man Utd in 1970.
A couple of Birmingham City related quotes. First, Jim Smith, BCFC manager in the early 1980s after his team had lost a game in London: Radio reporter: "The fans are right behind you, Jim." Smith: "Well, let's hope I can shake them off before we reach Watford." Then Vince Overson, BCFC captain in the early 1990s: "This club isn't a sleeping giant - it's more like a comatose dwarf." And one from Bill Shankly, who was never. als, connected with Birmingham: "I love it when we play West Ham. They always play some beautiful football, the crowd always sees a wonderful game, and we always win 3-0."
"I'm not at all religious. In Spain, all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If that worked, then it would always be a draw." --Cruyff "...from the world's second best football player" -- a card from Pele to George Best
He actually said "Someone said 'football is more important than life and death to you' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'."
"Alright, if we can't beat them, we could at least ruin their pitch". Rolf Rüssmann, center back for Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund.
more Gattuso from the WC... Gattuso being told that he has become the face of this WC after Ronaldinho's poor performances "I can only ever dream of the kind of skill Ronaldinho has. To put us on par is an insult to soccer" ----------------------------------------------- Gattuso responding to a half-hearted question of making the WC team. "Even if Marcello Lippi decided to send me home I would have chained myself to the team bus. You would have had to call the police to take me away" ----------------------------------------------- Ahead of the semi-final with Germany when he was on a yellow card "I'd gladly miss the Final if it meant getting Italy there. Having said that, it's not as if I'm looking for a card with a Rambo bandana on my head. If the referee waves a yellow at me, I might just have to eat it"
Marcelo Lippi on Iaquinta getting a yellow card: "We've told the players 850 times that you can't kick the ball away, I don't know how we can make it clearer"
Here's another one by Gordon Strachan: "Lennon has a hamstring strain. Paul Telfer is injured too - why are there no rumours about Paul Telfer? The poor guy gets ignored all the time. He just wants one rumour."
apparently just as brazil won the 58 world cup final,garrincha said to one of his team mates"what ? its over already..what a rubbish tournament".laughed my head off when i first read that,he prefered the carioca championship because you got to play everyone twice.
Geezer Butler, the bassist for Black Sabbath, when asked in late 70s, what the highest point of Black Sabbath's first ten years of existence was "Villa winning the League Cup in 77" Now, there's a man who loves his football.
Fabio Capello: "Serie A is wonderful. Serie B is depressing. And you have to be on drugs to watch Serie C."
More enigmatic stuff from Cruyff: "You never see a Dutchman excel in a sport like weightlifting. It's apparently not in our nature to lift weights. We're just too lazy. But we did sail every sea and we excel in hockey, football and volleyball. Being just a little bit smarter helps. Dutch people have the edge there." (and no he wasn't being ironic!) "When I come home after a sport analysis and my wife asks, 'What did you say?' I'll reply, 'I have absolutely no idea whatsoever.'" "Orange is a happy colour." "The cleverest do math, the next-best write books. Dancers are the cleverest with their feet, next are footballers." My personal favourite: "If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better." And finally, the phrase that should help all of you to understand the Dutch view on football and indeed life in general: "It's better to fail with your own vision rather than following another man's vision."
Louis van Gaal to the Dutch media: "Are you all that stupid or am I that clever" "The Spanish league is the best in the world. The Dutch league is the second best league in the world." (hence my signature) To the Spanish media upon his resigning at Barcelona: "My friends of the press, I'm off. Congratulations." Screaming at Ajax fans after they won the championship: "We're the best club of Amsterdam, we're the best club of Rotterdam, we're the best club of Eindhoven" (and he wonders why he's so well liked in Holland - not)