Sepp Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote. — Sepp Blatter

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. — Sepp Blatter

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it. — Sepp Blatter

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it. — Sepp Holzer

We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it. — Sepp Blatter

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players. — Sepp Blatter

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team? — Sepp Blatter

I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard — Sepp Blatter

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact. — Sepp Blatter

What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner. — Sepp Blatter

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams. — Sepp Blatter

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world. — Sepp Blatter

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa. — Sepp Blatter

We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions. — Sepp Blatter

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don't think. I think he's useless you can quote me on that. — Ian Holloway

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world. — Sepp Blatter

I think Sepp Blatter is in danger ... or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa ... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility. — Alex Ferguson

I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going. — Sepp Blatter

Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV. — Sepp Blatter

It's good to know that I'm not crazy, then." "Well, you might be, dear," she says mildly. "But not if you want to strangle him with yarn." "He's stealing my socks," I lean forward and whisper. "They do that sort of thing," she whispers back. "It's okay, really." "Sometimes I think that if I see one more of his socks on the floor I'm going to bury them all in the back yard." She smiles again, the corners of her eyes crinkling merrily. "Well, if you decide to take that route, we have a wide range of shovels in aisle seven. — Maia Sepp

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda. — Sepp Blatter

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season. — Sepp Blatter

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. — Sepp Blatter

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools. — Sepp Blatter

I am the president now, the president of everybody. — Sepp Blatter

Because I love football and I love the footballers. — Sepp Blatter

You cannot ask everyone to behave ethically. — Sepp Blatter

A strategic victory does not validate all the victor's operational and tactical methods or make them universally applicable. — Kalev I. Sepp

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

After the game is before the game. — Sepp Herberger

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football. — Sepp Blatter

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you've strangled someone in a bar fight. — John Oliver

The ball is round so that the game can change direction — Sepp Herberger

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. — Sepp Blatter

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected. — Sepp Blatter

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world. — Sepp Blatter

Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion? — Sepp Blatter

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism. — Sepp Blatter

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear. — Sepp Blatter

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star. — Sepp Blatter

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that ... really! — Sepp Blatter

I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist? — Sepp Blatter

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer. — Sepp Blatter

All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football. — Sepp Blatter

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer, — Sepp Blatter

Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time. — Sepp Blatter

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
That's good design. — Sepp Holzer

What is t that I did to deserve this? And what is it that Luthar did? Is he not just as I was? Arrogant, vain, and selfish as hell? Is he a better man? Then why has life punished me so harshly, and rewarded him so richly?
But Glokta already knew the answer. The same reason that innocent Sepp dan Teufel languishes in Angland with his fingers shortened. The same reason that loyal General Vissbruck died in Dagoska, while treacherous Magister Eider was let live. The same reason that Tulkis, the Gurkish Ambassador, was butchered in front of a howling crowd for a crime he did not commit.
He pressed his tongue into one of his few remaining teeth. Life is not fair. — Joe Abercrombie