Soccer Quotes

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Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
~Bill Shankly

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The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
~ Phil Woosnam

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We now have a rat-race with the top players demanding and getting £1,000 a week.
~Peter Swales, expressing an anxiety in 1982

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Football hooligans? Well there are the ninety-two club chairmen for a start.
~ Brian Clough

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I asked the manager for a ball to train with. He couldn't have looked more horrified if I'd asked for a transfer. He told me they never used a ball at Barnsley. The theory was that we'd be hungry for it on Saturday if we didn't see it for the rest of the week. I told him that come Saturday I probably wouldn't recognise it."
~ Danny Blanchflower

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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
~Jean Paul Sartre

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I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring.
~Nick Hornby

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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
~Roy Keane

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Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
~George Best

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The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
~Maradona

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Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
~Oscar Wilde

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Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
~Anthony Burgess

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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
~Bill Shankly

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Football is the opera of the people.
~Stafford Heginbotham

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You've got to believe that you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
~Peter Shilton

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We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other 3% that cost us the match.
~Ruud Gullit

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It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.
~Vahid Halilhodžić

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In his life, a man can change wifes, political parties or religions but it cannot change his favourite football team.
~Eduardo Galleano

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If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd pull the curtains.
~Bill Shankly

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I'd be surprised if all 22 players are on the field at the end of the game; one has already been sent off.
~George Best

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Chile have three options – they could win or they could lose. It’s up to them, the tide is in their court now.
~Ron Atkinson

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Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don’t know the offside rule.
~Andy Gray

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Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.
~Richard Keys

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Note - these last 2 soccer quotes got Andy Gray and Richard Keys sacked from their jobs presenting Sky Sports in 2011