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| Someone said "football is more important than life and death to you" and I said "Listen, it's more important than that."
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| He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
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| I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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| I told myself before the game, 'he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else' - but I was wrong.
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
— Eric Cantona, following the "Kung-Fu Kick Incident" of January 1995 |
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| Look!, We have two eyes, two legs, we are the same as them, the only difference is that they play in Europe.
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| Nobody can stop him. Probably the only way to do it is to kill him. When he runs at you, you try to grab his shirt or do whatever you can. But he just goes past you, makes fun out of you and leaves you kicking the air.
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| I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I'm not mad, I'm just passionate.
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| First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.
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| Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.
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| Things have taken time to get used to, the weather's not great and people seem to drink beer all the time, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be playing.
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| Before the match my daughter said: 'Beenie the horse wants to sit next to you by the drinks holder on the touchline'. It is difficult to tell a seven-year-old: 'This is the Premiership, I’m known as Psycho and I'm a hard man'.
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| The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!
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| I have never started a fight in my life but I have finished a few... sometimes I shudder when I think about what I have done.
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| If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.
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That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.
— John Lambie, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was. |
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| Away from home our fans are fantastic...but at home they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.
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| If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there.
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| I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
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| Football is simple, but the most difficult thing is to play simple football.
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| I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
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| To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She weren't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee
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| We need a big, ugly defender. If we had one of them we'd have dealt with County's first goal by taking out the ball, the player and the first three rows of seats in the stands.
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| At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques.
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| 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.
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| If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.
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| Soccer is the biggest thing that's happened in creation. It's bigger than any 'ism' you can name
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| When I looked down the leg was lying one way and my ankle was pointing towards Hong Kong - so I knew I was in serious trouble.
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| I don't let my opponent get into the game for a second. I destroy him and eat him raw.
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| Statistics are like miniskirts, they give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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| What else is there in life? Cricket is like watching paint dry. Tennis? Golf is a pain in the backside. The only game in town is soccer.
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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.
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| Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.
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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.
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| The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
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| Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
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