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More Soccer QuotesMore soccer quotes including some hilarious gems from masters of the verbal gaffe - like Ron Atkinson, Kevin Keegan and Sir Bobby Robson. Enjoy! "And Sheffield Wednesday win 2-0, leaving the Anfield crowd brainwashed."
"He is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either."
"That goal surprised most people, least of all myself."
"Ian Rush, deadly ten times out of ten, but that wasn't one of them."
"He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post."
"I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy."
"Newport 0, Wrexham 1. Well done the Welsh there."
"The penalty was a fair decision, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
"Believe it or not, goals can change a game."
"Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net."
"At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch."
"Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen."
"Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself."
"He had an eternity to play that ball, but he took too long over it."
"And so the fair, long hair of Adrian Heath has been thrown into the action."
"Even when you're dead you shouldn't lie down and let yourself be buried."
"Butcher goes forward as Ipswich throw their last trump card into the fire."
"John Lyall, very much a claret and blue man, from his stocking feet to his hair."
"Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno."
"I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well."
"Souness' football brain working at a hundred miles an hour there."
Reporter: "This might sound like a daft question, but you'll be happy to get your first win under your belt, won't you?" "Who ever wins today will win the championship, no matter who wins."
"I'm not superstitious or anything like that, I'll just hope we play our best and leave it in the lap of the gods."
"Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future."
"The whole team stopped as one man, but Arkwright in particular."
"Well clearly Graeme it all went according to plan, what was the plan exactly?"
"Forest are having a bad run, they've lost six matches in a row now without winning."
"5.3 million is a large loaf to be throwing away before a ball's been kicked."
"Players win games and players lose games, it's all about players really."
"There is no change in the top six of Division Two, except that Leeds have moved into the top six."
"I do want to play the long ball and I do want to play the short ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about."
Interviewer: "In your new book, Pat, you've devoted a whole chapter to Jimmy Greaves." "At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year."
"...and now the Northern Ireland Manager, Billy Bingham, will have to put his thinking boots on."
"I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win."
"If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players."
"He's got his legs back, of course, or his leg - he's always had one but now he's got two."
Dickie Davies: "What's he going to be telling his team at half time Denis?" "Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness."
"I'm not going to make it a target but it's something to aim for."
"Hodge scored for Forest after only 22 seconds, totally against the run of play."
"Ardiles always says, if you're confident you're totally different to the player that's lacking confidence."
"The goals made such a difference to the way this game went."
"Well we got nine and you can't score more than that."
"We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin."
"You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out."
"Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is."
"Wolves 'keeper John Burridge has consciously modelled himself on the great Peter Shilton, same sort of hair style."
"At the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done."
"Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it."
"I was a young lad when I was growing up."
"Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about."
"Wilkins sends an inch perfect pass to no one in particular."
"To me personally, it's nothing personal."
"And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season."
"Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 20s or 30s and sometimes not even then."
"I felt a lump in my mouth as the ball went in."
"It's always very satisfying to beat Arsenal, as indeed Arsenal would admit."
"I was surprised but as I always say, nothing surprises me in football."
"John Bond has brought in a young left sided midfield player, who, I guess, will play on the left side of midfield."
"One of Asa's great qualities is not scoring goals."
"The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful."
"The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man."
"I'm not going to look beyond the semi-final - but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final."
"Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was."
"I don't know if that result's enough to lift Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland."
"I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd."
"The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European."
"One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best."
"I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I do not want to leave."
"Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match."
"I'm as happy as I can be, but I've been happier."
"I definitley want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet"
"Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days."
"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game."
"What can I say about Peter Shilton? Peter Shilton is Peter Shilton, and he has been Peter Shilton since the year dot."
"The beauty of cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath."
"It's a game we've got to win. It's also a game we've not got to lose."
"When a player gets to 30, so does his body."
"Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn."
"We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals."
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