Fantastic Football Quotes

Here are some quotes that prove footballers are either dim or funny!

• "It took a lot of bottle for Tony Adams to own up to being an alcoholic" - Ian Wright
• "I'm as happy as I can be - but I have been happier" - Ugo Ehiogu
• "If there wasn't such a thing as footballers, we'd all be frustrated footballers" - Mick Lyons
• "I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel" - Stuart Pearce
• "I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics" - Ashley Cole
• "The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it" - Graeme Le Saux
• "I just couldn't settle in Italy, it was like living in a foreign country" - Ian Rush
• "Lineker always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice" - Kevin Keegan
• "Rooney can go all the way to the top if he keeps his head firmly on the ground" - David Unsworth
• "Andy Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out" - Sir Alex Ferguson
• "Tony Hately had it all. The only thing he lacked was ability" - Tommy Docherty
• "I told our new manager that we were all behind him 50 per cent" - Rodney Marsh
• "I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester" - Stan Collymore
• "I don't know why they call me Sniffer, apart from the fact that I sniff out goals" - Allan Clarke
• "It's the best goal I have ever scored ... almost as good as the one I scored in the League Cup final at Wembley" - Rodney Marsh
• "One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best" - Alan Shearer
• "Sometimes in football you have to score goals" - Thierry Henry
• "I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football" - Les Ferdinand
• "I don't think they're as good as they are" - Kevin Keegan
• "That was a tackle aimed at getting revenge ... or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution" - Joe Royle
• "For a player to ask for a transfer has opened everybody's eyebrows" - Sir Bobby Robson
• "To be second with one game to go ... you can't ask for more" - Stuart Mccall
• "I don't read everything I read in the press" - Dave Jones
• "The best thing for them to do is to stay at 0 – 0 until they score the goal" - Martin O'Neill
• "If we'd won, it would have meant an historic double-treble. But we weren't even thinking about that" - Walter Smith
• "We gained more from the game than they did ... except they got the points" - Brian Little
• "And at the end of the season you can only do as well as you have done" - Bryan Robson
• "Some of the players never dreamed they'd be playing at Wembley, but here they are today fulfilling those dreams" - Lawrie Mcmenemy
• "We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal" - Alan Buckley
• "I'm not superstitious or anything like that, but I'll just hope we'll play our best and put the rest in the laps of the gods" - Terry Neill
• "If history is going to repeat itself, I think we could expect the same thing again" - Terry Venables
• "Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties" - Kevin Keegan
• " Liverpool goalkeeper Chris Kirkland's future is definitely in front of him" - Andy Gray
• "That's a question mark everybody's asking" - Bruce Grobbelaar
• "It was like déjà vu all over again" - Shaka Hislop
• "If you make the right decision, it's normally going to be the correct one" - Dave Beasant
• "I am a firm believer that if you score one goal, the other team have to score two to win" - Howard Wilkinson
• "I promise results, not promises" - John Bond
• "There's a slight doubt about only one player, and that's Tony Adams, who definitely won't be playing tomorrow" - Kevin Keegan
• "I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem"" - Kevin Keegan
• "We haven't scored, which means you haven't got a chance of winning" - Sir Bobby Robson
• "If we had taken our chances, we would have won -- at least" - David O'Leary
• "We did not come here to play for a draw, or any other result" - John Terry
• "I've got a good record there – played one, won one. Hopefully it will be the same after Saturday" - Steven Gerrard
• "People will say that was typical City, which really annoys me. But that's typical City I suppose" - Kevin Keegan
• "Me, Volatile? Well, I can play in the centre, on the right side and occasionally on the left side" - David Beckham
• "I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona" - Mark Draper
• "He's one of those players whose brain is in his head" - Derek Johnstone
• "I'm not a believer in luck, although I do believe you need it" - Alan Ball
• "I will not name my team before the kick-off, but it will definitely be unchanged" - Bill Nicholson
• "The beauty of cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath" - Terry Butcher
• "Magnifico ... or whatever they say in Paris" - Peter Reid
• "I feel as sick as the proverbial donkey" - Mick Mccarthy
• " England have the best fans in the world. Scotland 's are second to none" - Kevin Keegan
• "In a year's time, he'll be a year older" - Bobby Robson
• "It wasn't going to be our day on the night" - Bryan Robson
• "I'd not be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the League" - Mark Viduka
• "I've never heard a minutes silence like that one" - Glenn Hoddle
• "As I've said before and I've said in the past ..." - Kenny Dalglish
• "You've got to miss them to score them sometimes" - Dave Bassett
• "Nigel Winterburn was caught as immobile as a moving lamppost" - George Graham
• "The manager has given us unbelievable belief" - Paul Merson
• "He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened" - Graeme Le Saux
• "The manager could not even talk to us at half-time ... He said we were bad" - John Terry
• "I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer" - David Platt
• "I've always been a childhood Liverpool fan, even when I was a kid" - Harry Kewell
• "When a player gets to thirty, so does his body" - Glen Hoddle
• "Football is football. If that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is" - Garth Crooks
• "That would have been a goal if the keeper hadn't saved it" - Kevin Keegan
• "Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in the Premiership, and Man United are up there with them" - Craig Bellamy
• "I know what's around the corner ... I just don't know where the corner is, but we must control the bandwagon" - Kevin Keegan
• "There's nobody bigger or smaller than Maradona" - Kevin Keegan