The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

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

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

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

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.

This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

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

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

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

This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.

Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can?

That's a sign of a good football team, where we can adjust and adapt to our surroundings.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

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

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

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

That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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