Well, I thought I might start this topic for quotes by football players and football officials. I know we've a quote of the week topic...but this is for the classics...

"I'm not like Assauer(manager of Schalke 04). I'm not looking for excuses all the time. Sometimes it's the ref, sometimes it's the grass"
-Ansgar Brinkmann (aka "The white Brasilian)

"I spent 800 € today, and I still got 2 million ont the bank....What do you want?"
-Ansgar Brinkmann, to a young woman

"Till 5 o'clock in the morning you can find me in my favorite bar..."
-Ansgar Brinkmann, on his answering machine (or however that thing is called)

"Milan or Madrid? Essential is I want to go to Italy"
-Andreas Möller

"I'm always self-critical. Especially to myself..."
-Andreas Möller

"I have to learn portuguese until the WC, so I can congratulate the brazilians for their second place"
-Lukas Podolski

"It's an impressing number"
-Lukas Podolski, when he was asked why the entire german NT wears shirts with the number 82 Million (number of inhabitants in Germany) on it.

"I don't think before I score, I never think"
-Lukas Podolski

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
-George Best


"In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol. It was the worst 20 minutes of my life."
-George Best

"I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep."
-George Best

"I once said Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number and he asked me: 'What's an IQ?' "
-George Best

"I'll never make any prediction"
-Paul Gascoigne

"We played 16 months a year."
-Franz Beckenbauer

"Berktan Göktan is only 17. If he's lucky he'll be 18 next months."
-Franz Beckenbauer

"Johan was the better player. But I'm world champion"
-Franz Beckenbauer when he was asked who was better, him or Johan Cruijff.

"If football wouldn't exist, I would invent it."
-Johan Cruijff

"There is no bad luck. If a striker only hits the woodwork it's a fault"
-Johan Cruijff

"Coincidence is logical"
-Johan Cruijff

"The Dutch were always better in talking than they were in football"
-Johan Cruijff

"We shouldn't put the sand in our heads right now."
-Lothar Matthäus

"There he goes. A man like Steffi Graf."
A commentator about Lothar Matthäus after his last game



Hopfeully you guys find some more

Don't let Gila see that...

Great work LaPalma ...

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Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Podolski really is STUPID ...thanks man !!

"Eventually you get used to it, but you need to learn to separate your professional life from your private life. That's the only way to cope." Paolo Maldini, on being famous

'Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesbrough.'
- Jonathan Woodgate

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

'I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.'
-Lee Hendrie

'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.'
- Ian Rush

'Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today.'
- Steve Lomas

'I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.'
- Barry Venison

'I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.'
- David Beckham

'The Brazilians were South America, and the Ukranians will be more European.'
- Phil Neville

'The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.'
- Graeme Le Saux

'One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.'
- Alan Shearer

'I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.'
- Johnny Giles

'Sometimes in football you have to score goals.'
- Thierry Henry

Really

Marek Jankulovski

Like for example ... in CL finals again Barcelona !?

thanks mishale !!

Sam Allardyce
"There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. ********. It does exist" - Bolton Wanderers manager discusses metaphysics.

Alan Brown
"Soccer is the biggest thing that's happened in creation. It's bigger than any 'ism' you can name."

Brian Clough
"It only takes a second to score a goal."
"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes."

Johann Cruyff
"Toeval is logisch." ("Coincidence is logical.")

Alex Ferguson
"Football. Bloody hell!"

Paul Gardner
"To the aesthete it (football) is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion."

Ian Holloway
"My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point."

John Motson
"The World Cup is a truly international event."

Sir Alf Ramsey
"The missing of chances is one of the mysteries of life."

Sir Bobby Robson
"The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important."

Ronaldo
"We lost because we didn't win."

Gordon Strachan
"The world looks a totally different place after two wins."

Neville Southall
"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day."

Mike Summerbee
"Next thing we'll be giving our handbags to the linesmen as we skip onto the field." - commenting on new rules interpretations by referees

Peter Taylor
"When I said even my Missus could save Derby from relegation, I was exaggerating."

Howard Wilkinson
"I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first you have to score twice to win."

"The fastest player is the ball"
Sepp Herberger, German nt coach from 1950-1964

"The nect game is always the hardest one"
Sepp Herberger

"The ball is roundly, and the game lasts 90 minutes"
Sepp Herberger

"A World Cup is when the best football players from many countries play against each other, and Daddy is Germanys goalkeeper"
-Jens Lehmann, when he was asked what he tells his 5-year old son if he asks what a WC is

"Zidane does some extraordinary things, it's true. But you have to put everything in context. What Zidane does with a ball, Maradona could do with an orange."
-Michel Platini (oh and he's not right here...)

yeah Platini whatever you say ... just remember; you'll always stay unWCed !!


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Oh and football is not played with oranges !!

“It’s always important for a striker to score goals.”
Adriano looks up the job description on his contract

Here are some wuotes I just HAD to post. They're by one of my favorite foorball players ever: Mario "Super Mario" Basler. He's a bit of a german version of Paul Gascoigne, only much cooler and his corners were awesome. I'll never forget when I witnessed one of his famous corners live. His speciality was, that he could score directly by kicking his corners....

In the training camp of the german NT
"No, we don't gamble for much money. Just 2000€"

"I also told it to him verbally"

After Bayern Munich lost a series of games
"Maybe should go out, drink a lot, and trash ourselves"

"Lothar Matthäus? I threw things at him in the stadium, when I was younger."

"I great my mom, my dad and especially my parents"

"I don't care who plays. I only care if I play"

Explaining a solar eclipse
"Maybe someone shot a football at the sun"

"I won a header duel in the 90th minute. And someone like me doesn't go to the WC"

"Each side has two medals"

After Didi Hamanns birthday party that he left at 3 in the morning
"The birds didn't even whistle when I left"


And one more by ex-Dortmund star Steffen Freund
"It was an amazing moment when the coach told me to take of my clothes, and said "Let's go!" "

Mehmet Scholl when a journalist asked him what he's afraid of
"War and Oliver Kahn"

"I never had to argue with my wife. Except for that one time when she wanted on that wedding photo"

"I'll never play golf because 1. It's my sport and 2. I still have sex"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k6-3vZWCRU

Arrigo Sacchi:
One time Van Basten said to me: Why do Milan keep winning while the others don't?
I answered: Marco, we want to remain in the memory as a side that wins in a certain way, we must entertain the public because it's just not the winning that counts.'