Football Match Quotes
What players remember most about match day
These quotes come largely from players reflecting on what a football match actually feels like, from scoring decisive goals to taking a hit during play. Several also compare playing at home versus abroad, noting how little the game itself changes. See our Country page for more on that contrast.
Goals can help lift me to be one of the best two or three in the world, most definitely. You score the goal that wins the football match five, six, seven times a season: you are one of the best...
When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match...
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I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
It's not like I played my first football match in England. For me, football is pretty much the same everywhere; the ball is round, but maybe tactically, things are different than at other clubs I've played for.
Best Quotes
I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
You gain know-how from playing matches because every moment of a football match has its own rhythm.
I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out...
Brain Quotes
As a very patriotic and passionate Scot, singing the anthem at a big football match means the world to me and I'm so lucky and so honoured that I get asked to do this.
