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The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea. — David Icke

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football. — Cesc Fabregas

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces — Ron Atkinson

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too. — Harry Redknapp

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend. — Jose Mourinho

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now. — Phil Cornwell

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty. — Noel Gallagher

I do not play football, I score goals. — Dada Maravilha

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists? — Pete Gill

I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England. — Kevin Bond

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating. — Dave Eggers

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II

I'm too tired to speak in English ... — David Ginola

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries. — Brian Clough

Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is — Garth Crooks

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying. — Johan Cruijff

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey. — John Aldridge

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto. — Jose Mourinho

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws. — Graeme Souness

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be. — Bill Shankly

Football is all about sentiment; if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United. — Mark O'Brien

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. — Dan Birdwell

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art. — Kasey Keller

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened. — Jamie Carragher

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much. — Arsene Wenger

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup. — Robbie Savage

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team. — Diego Maradona

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson. — Gordon Strachan

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple. — Johan Cruijff

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. — Ugo Ehiogu

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win — Vinnie Jones

Soccer must be played with the heart,not with strength and talent as perceived. — ABC

Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city. — Ardal O'Hanlon

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages. — Ken Bates

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung. — Tommy Docherty

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland? — Lawrie Sanchez

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started. — Ron Atkinson

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three. — Chris Coleman

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference. — Sebastian Janikowski

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders. — Rio Ferdinand

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm. — Joe Royle

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.' — Jose Mourinho

You might as well talk to my baby daughter. You'll get more sense out of her — Kenny Dalglish

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football. — Johan Cruijff

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal. — Shay Given

Let slip the dogs of champions. — Jose Mourinho

I'm very happy to have moved to West Ham, because I can play for a better team than Sheffield Wednesday. — Paolo Di Canio

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know. — Harry Redknapp

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated — Wallace Mercer

David James is a cretin. — Paolo Di Canio

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so. — Rod Liddle

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college. — Joe Biden

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance. — Marcus Samuelsson

We live for games like these. — Alex McLeish

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid. — Jose Mourinho

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation. — David Blunkett

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right. — Jonathan Wilson

All I know of morality I learned from football — Albert Camus

Football's all about 90 minutes — Glenn Hoddle

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important. — John Sutherland

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once. — Raul Lopez

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax. — Gary Lineker

He is inexperienced but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through. — Steve McClaren

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris

The game must have been past my bed-time. — Theo Walcott

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire. — Henry Winter

Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we? — Paolo Di Canio

International football is the continuation of war by other means. — George Orwell

Is he ever going to learn? — Graham Taylor

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed. — Danny Baker

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent. — Bryan Robson

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can. — Jose Mourinho

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz? — Frank Skinner

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget. — Gianfranco Zola

Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning. — Ron Atkinson

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers. — Jon Champion

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple. — Paul Ince

There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had. — Alan Parry

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. — Pete Gill

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague. — Giovanni Trapattoni

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas' — Paul Merson

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot. — Neil Warnock

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better. — Johan Cruijff

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human. — Carl Sagan

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much. — Jose Mourinho

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football — Tony Cascarino

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical. — Didier Drogba

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games. — Gareth Barry

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. — Roy Keane

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. — Nick Hornby

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard. — Gordon Strachan

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job. — Brian Clough

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. — Stuart Pearce

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. — Wally Schirra

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space. — Vladimir Putin

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.' — Luiz Felipe Scolari

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us. — Steve Staunton

A holocaust of an afternoon. — Carlton Palmer