Quotes & Sayings About Brazil Football

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. — Marta

Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us. — Simon Kuper

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success. — Gary Lineker

Belgium's not a hotpot of international football — Alan Brazil

We are all free in a democracy to believe whatever we wish, so why call any opinion such as Creationism a virulent cultural parasite-equivalent? Because it represents a triumph of blind religious faith over carefully tested fact. It is not a conception of reality forged by evidence and logical judgment. Instead, it is part of the price of admission to a religious tribe. Faith is the evidence given of a person's submission to a particular god, and even then not to the deity directly but to other humans who claim to represent the god. — Edward O. Wilson

In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil. — Anne Robinson

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad. — Marta

It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments. — Neymar

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. — Gareth Bale

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose. — Bobby Robson

Nightmare completed, another humiliating defeat. 10 goals in 2 game.
It will take time to come out from such humiliating defeat for Brazilian fans. But I think when you like something, when you fall to someone, when you are in love, you like them whatever happens, even they give tears to you time to time because you liked it from your heart. — Nutan Bajracharya

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football. — Pele

All my requests are in but one, thy Will be done. — Charles Wesley

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic. — Johan Cruijff

America Is A Gun

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun. — Brian Bilston

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that. — Alan Brazil

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game. — Michel Patini

The tackles are coming in thick and thin now. — Alan Brazil

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem. — Pele

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United. — Alan Brazil

This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar ... in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

But I am doing that thing I always do-the obsessing about what I don't have, the ignoring where I am now. — Amy Reed

Wake ... wake up ... stand up,opportunity does not wait for the lazy — Mohammed Sekouty

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales. — Ron Greenwood

Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old. — Laura Osnes

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! — Pele