Throughout the years of its existence, soccer has produced some pretty insightful sayings from those involved with it. Take a look at these quotessome are funny, some are tragic, some are inspirational, some are all three. Are you surprised by the passion they show? Yeah, we didn’t think so. We’re continually scouring the web for more, so don’t be surprised if you see some additions at some point in the future.Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they’d stop fighting for it.–AnonymousSome people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.Bobby Charlton, playerSoccer is not about justice. It’s a drama – and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.Pete DaviesFootball’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.–Queen Elizabeth IITo the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.Paul Gardner, playerThe goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It’s the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.George Graham, player/managerIf a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they’ve won.Mia Hamm, playerFootball is the opera of the people.Stafford Heginbotham, club chairmanFail to prepare, prepare to fail.Roy Keane, player/managerTo say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.J.B. Priestley, author (The Good Companions)Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.Hugo Sanchez, player/coachIn football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.–Jean Paul Sartre, philosopherAt a football club, there’s a holy trinity the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.Bill Shankly, managerThe rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does.Phil Woosnam, player/managerA sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball.1997 advertisement for the MetroStars Major League Soccer team

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