Soccer Quotes

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

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
- Henry Blaha

Football is the opera of the people.
- Stafford Heginbotham

It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.
- Casey Korkus

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
- Roy Keane

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
- Ronaldo

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
- Ondino Viera

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

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

If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
- Mia Hamm