Manchester Soccer Quotes & Sayings

He was born victor, as some are born vanquished. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever. — Matthew Engel

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. — Ian McShane

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. — Floyd Abrams

Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach. — Phil Cornwell

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. — Napoleon Hill

He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club that wanted him. First of all, he came in and told me that Arsenal wanted to buy him, then the next week it was Manchester Utd, then the next week it was Real Madrid. He made it clear that he did not want to be at the club so, in the end, there was only one thing I could do - send him to Wigan. — Joe Kinnear

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do. — Roy Keane

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close ... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble. — Alan Hansen

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for. — Mark Twain

If I had it to do over, I'd vote for Obama without hesitation. I'm very thankful that McCain and Palin aren't in office. — Charles Foster Johnson

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City. — Ronald Koeman

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty. — Noel Gallagher

I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City. — Alex Ferguson

This Syrian circus/crisis we are going through is hilarious ... It's like watching some thug killing another person and asking him for his bullets but releasing him free. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough. — Tom Dunne

Most human beings, Paulinus, complain about the meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because this spell of time that has been given to us rushes by so swiftly and rapidly that with very few exceptions life ceases for the rest of us just when we are getting ready for it. — Seneca.

And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton — David Coleman

Football is the poetry of a motion. — Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him ... Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1. — Mike Ingham

Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we? — Paolo Di Canio

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain. — George Herbert

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities. — Nemanja Vidic

Football is all about sentiment; if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United. — Mark O'Brien