Football Goal Quotes & Sayings

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

Strive through your adversities like a great football striker. Concentrate on the goal post and your ability to score a great goal. Let your attention be on your strength and your distinctive dexterity that can beat the strength and oppositions of your defenders and not the height, strength or boldness of the defenders. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' — Chuck Pagano

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right. — George Best

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home. — George Carlin

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal. — Martin O'Neill

We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal. — Alan Buckley

We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us. — Alex Ferguson

You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team. — Groucho Marx

The long goal kick, and now, this could fall ... — Gerald Sinstadt

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three. — Chris Coleman

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player. — Pete Rose

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion. — Richard Corliss

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal. — Shay Given

Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes. You know why? Because they all know he will never leave. in my time he would be in the top six or seven (best United players ever) without a doubt. His contribution and quality have been great, even without the fantastic goals he has scored. [ ... ] He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. When he gets it, it goes stone dead. It is wonderful to see that amidst all the mayhem that can happen in a football match. — Alex Ferguson

How responsible are you with what you are given? Are you the per- son who, when asked to do a job, can be counted on to get it done and get it done right? Don't settle for just a field goal in life. Make the push for the last six inches and score a touchdown. Faithfulness, hard work, and dedication will gain the trust of others and take you further down the field. — Jake Byrne

Linked together as a team with one goal, we soon realized we were only as strong as our weakest link. But did we condemn the weaker
member? That wouldn't serve any purpose. Instead, the stronger guys responded by carrying more weight than the weaker teammate. Encouragement was key in reaching the top of the stadium, standing as one.
Sometimes one person on your team may not be as strong as another. Strengths usually differ. Likewise, in an encounter with another, someone may have a different set of beliefs or ideas.To accomplish any goal, embracing the strengths and weaknesses of each member and compensating where necessary are the best ways to make it to the top. — Jake Byrne

Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half. — Anthony Adamson

I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK. — Usain Bolt

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. — Vince Lombardi

I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never been my purpose in life. My purpose in life is simply to glorify God. We have to be careful that we don't let the pursuit of our life's goals, no matter how important they seem, cause us to lose sight of our purpose. I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose. — Tony Dungy

And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0. — Elton Welsby

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere. — Martin O'Neill

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast. — Michael Owen

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life. — Bill Shankly

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?' — Michael Strahan

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one. — George Hamilton

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies. — Roman Abramovich

Living life without a GOAL is like playing football without a Goal post. There is no Purpose. Then why play the game of Life?-RVM — R.v.m.

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. — Ray Lewis

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh. — Gordon Strachan

There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line. — Matty Bell

The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition. — Alvin Martin

Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ... — Jon Champion

I don't see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they'd have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin. — Ian Holloway

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart. — Oliver Kahn

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park. — Geoff Thompson

Why does a man spend fifty years of his life in an occupation that is often painful? I once told a class I was teaching that writing is an intellectual contact sport, similar in some respects to football. The effort required can be exhausting, the goal unreached, and you are hurt on almost every play; but that doesn't deprive a man or a boy from getting peculiar pleasures from the game. — Irwin Shaw

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals — George Hamilton

It was one of the best goals I've seen this millenium. — Tony Gubba

He'd score more goals if he was a better finisher. — Dion Dublin

Most goals are scored between the posts. — Jamie Redknapp

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

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal. — Johan Cruijff

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball — Ian St. John

The goal of Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies is to help you understand the basics of football rules and the player positions. — Howie Long

Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings. — Garry Wills

Fulham haven't had a shot on target, which is probably why they aren't in the goals. — Tony Cottee

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group. — George M. Gilbert

The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it - they are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation ("Clearly . . ."), threat ("It would be unscientific to . . ."), authority ("As Popper showed . . ."), insult ("This work lacks the necessary rigor for . . ."), and belittling ("Few people today seriously believe that . . ."). Perhaps this is why H. L. Mencken wrote that "college football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students. — Steven Pinker

Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles. — Max Barry

For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy - and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck - though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone - a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game. — Richard Calland

We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,' and I thought I'd better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn't belong to, 'want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that's what they want. That's the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.'
'Bollocks,' said Ronnie.
'That, of course, is the other main difference. — Hugh Laurie

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. — David Mamet

There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back. — Tex Schramm

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger. — Mia Hamm

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away. — Bill Simmons

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal. — Drew Brees

The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased — Bertrand Russell

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football. — Victoria Beckham

Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic. — Oliver Bierhoff

Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be ... I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find. — Tom Brady

My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football. — Steve Young

Silvestre has had the whites of the goal in his eyes ever since ... — Ian Darke

Three years ago, researchers at Purdue University began monitoring every hit sustained by two high school teams. The goal was to study the effect of concussions. But when researchers administered cognitive tests to players who had never been concussed, hoping to set up a control group, they discovered that these teens showed diminished brain function as well. As the season wore on, their cognitive abilities plummeted. In some cases, brain activity in the frontal lobes - the region responsible for reasoning - nearly disappeared by season's end. "You have the classic stereotype of the dumb jock and I think the real issue is that's not how they start out," explained Thomas Talavage, one of the professors of the study. "We actually create that individual. — Steve Almond

Chris Porter scored his first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week. — Jeff Stelling

The NFL determines your worth as a player, but only God knows your true worth. Players work long and hard through pain and suffering, injuries, and pushing themselves further than they imagined going - then poof ! A dream is gone. That kind of treatment can really mess with one's self worth. Getting cut can be deemed a failure, the loss of a lifetime goal.
Thankfully, as Christians our worth is not determined by mistakes we've made, either accidentally or by stupid stuff we've purposely done. Neither is it determined by what anyone else thinks. Our worth is determined by what Jesus Christ has already done. — Jake Byrne

Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't. — Tony Kornheiser

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually. — Sergey Galitsky

Very few great goals actually go in. — Graham Taylor

I didn't do anything [during the game]. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier. — Robinho

In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored. — Terry Venables

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show. — Zinedine Zidane

Never accept limitations. — Jake Byrne

He just got his body between himself and the goal. — Ray Clemence

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal. — Jimmy Hill

He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker. — Garry Monk

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt. — Joe Royle

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself. — Gus Van Sant

Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench. — Mark Hateley

If Villa got another goal now it would change the scoreline completely. — Tony Cottee

It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football. — Mesut Ozil

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts. — Eric Bristow

In the game of football, you least complain, shout, talk or blame your opponents or the referee continuously throughout the game just because of your opponents opposition, strength or antics to ensure that you lose focus and lose the game; winning the game is your true aim. Such is life! You must do all you ought to do to score your goals notwithstanding the oppositions and how life will play the game of life with you! Be a goal getter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art. — Kasey Keller

When you lose a goal so early, you've always got an uphill mountain. — Steve Claridge

A team goal requires a team effort. — George M. Gilbert

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there. — Michael Corbat

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better. — Tony Dungy

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League. — Tony Dungy

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this. — Lorik Cana

The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break. — Arsene Wenger

When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy ... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing. — Gabriel Batistuta

That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche. — Dennis Miller

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score. — Arsene Wenger

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal. — Sepp Blatter

That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal. — Brian Marwood