3rd Degree

Great Quotes from Steve Morrow- FCD Head Coach

“We like to go overtime every single round and play some extra minutes. We’re going for the record of minutes played in a season. So, we’re trying to get as many overtimes as we can.” Steve Morrow after the third straight USOC overtime win in the 07 USOC.

Great Quotes from Colin Clarke - The last Burn coach and the first FC Dallas coach.

“They brought who they brought and they got their asses kicked.” Coach Colin Clarke after FCD defeated Atlas 4-1.

Quotes from Ray Canaveri –FCD Radio play by play man.

“It was a tail of two halves even though it was one half”

Great Quotes from Mike Jeffries –Second coach in Burn history

(He’s much more reticent than Dave Dir)

“It felt like we were on a desert island and got rescued by the Coors Light girls.” Coach Mike Jeffries, after defeating DC United for the Burn’s first win of 2003 (5/31).

Great quotes form Dave Dir –The first (and former) head coach of the Dallas Burn.

“I kind of feel bad for them. They haven’t had any players and I think they need Hernandez. I don’t know why they just don’t give him to them. They deserve some players.” Coach Dave Dir, talking about L.A.’s acquisition of Luis Hernandez 5/13/00.

“I thought that Cobi ran Daniv over and that that was a Cobi call. Just like when the guy [Galaxy defender Greg Vanney] lifted [Burn striker Ariel] Graziani in the air, we didn’t get a call because obviously Graziani was faking being lifted in the air.” Coach Dave Dir after loss at LA on 4/15/00.

“It wasn’t a pleasant evening, They [the Galaxy] can do whatever they want, but if we do something . . . what can I tell you?” Coach Dave Dir, who had calmed down only slightly after watching calls go against his team for 90 minutes versus LA on 4/15/00.

“Anyone who tells me soccer is boring, I’m going to punch them in the face.” Coach Dave Dir following the Burn’s come from behind win over LA on 10/3/99.

“It always seems to work that way for us, we don’t get the fun of being No. 1, but we get the schedule.” Coach Dir on the unbalanced schedule and the division of Death before the 2000 MLS season.

FCD Related Great Quotes: Former FCD player Carey Talley

“I didn’t connect with Mark Wilson all last year (while playing with FC Dallas) and the one time I did, I’m on the opposite team.” Carey Talley following his first return to Pizza Hut Park and clearing a ball right into Mark Wilson for a goal.

From World Cup 2002

Wellington free paper, The Capital Times: “New Zealand coach Grant Waite believes Ireland can surprise a few opponents ‘as long as they can keep key players like Martin Keown fit.’”

Radio Five’s Live’s Terry Butcher: “The Nigerians are raping us in midfield.”

Tommy Smythe of ESPN: “It’s not so much the heat, as it’s only in the 80s or so, but rather it’s the humidity. That’s up around 903 feathers…”

5/7/02 Another Set of Soccer Quotes

‘My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.’ David Beckham

‘I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.’ Mark Viduka

‘Alex Ferguson is the best manager I’ve ever had at this level. Well, he’s the only manager I’ve actually had at this level. But he’s the best manager I’ve ever had.’ David Beckham

‘If you don’t believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.’ Neville Southall

‘I’ve had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable.’ Paul Gascoigne

‘I’ve never wanted to leave. I’m here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.’ Alan Shearer

‘I’d like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.’ Mark Draper

‘You’ve got to believe that you’re going to win, and I believe we’ll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we’re knocked out.’ Peter Shilton

‘I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.’ Ade Akinbiyi

‘Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match.’ Ian Wright

‘I’m as happy as I can be - but I have been happier.’ Ugo Ehiogu

‘Leeds is a great club and it’s been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.’ Jonathan Woodgate

‘I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.’ Stuart Pearce

‘I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.’ Lee Hendrie

‘Germany are a very difficult team to play…they had 11 internationals out there today.’ Steve Lomas

‘I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.’ Barry Venison

‘The Brazilians were South America, and the Ukrainians will be more European.’ Phil Neville

‘All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.’ Mitchell Thomas

‘One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.’ Alan Shearer

‘I’d rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.’ Johnny Giles

‘Sometimes in football you have to score goals.’ Thierry Henry.

‘I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.’ Les Ferdinand

‘It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked.’ Richard Rufus

‘There’s no in between - you’re either good or bad. We were in between.’ Gary Lineker

‘Winning doesn’t really matter as long as you win.’ Vinny Jones

‘If you don’t concede any goals you’ll win more games than you lose.’ Wayne Bridge

‘Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian?’ Shaun Newton

First Set of Quotes….

“What the f**k is art? A picture of a bottle of sour milk lying next to a smelly old jumper? What the f**k is all that about?” John Gregory

“Away from home our fans are fantastic, I’d call them the hardcore fans. But at home they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t realize what’s going on out on the pitch.” Roy Keane

“We have people coming here to admire the scenery and enjoy their crisps.” Sir Alex Ferguson on Manchester United fans

“People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I’ve got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.” Andy Gray

“I hate to admit this but I don’t even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I’ve been known to warm up some food in the microwave.” Michael Owen

“I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I’m not sure which religion yet.” David Beckham

“For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.” Chris Kamara

“He will be called Ronald, because we like going to McDonald’s.” Ronaldo on his baby

“It is necessary to wear the sandals of humility and not let the win over Manchester United go to our heads.” Vasco Da Gama coach Antonio Lopes

“Young Gareth Barry, y’know, he’s young.” Kevin Keegan

“Red blood flows through Dyke’s veins.” Mihir Bose of the Daily Telegraph, describing the extent of the BBC director general’s devotion to Man U

“Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl - except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.” Graham Taylor

“Bryan Robson has been a victim of his own success.” Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb

“This is deja vu all over again.” Sky Sports Spanish football commentator

“Ken Bates is a football cretin.” Martin O’Neill

“Francis Jeffers is a disgusting, dirty little t**t.” Sander Westerveld

“There will have to be a bubonic plague for me to pick Di Canio.” Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni

“I’d like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.” Emmanuel Petit

“West Ham can take it or leave it. Our ﾣ15m bid for Rio Ferdinand already constitutes a world record for a defender and is a measured valuation. There will be no more.” Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale, less than a week after upping his final offer by ﾣ3million

“I am a Nigerian and I will remain a Nigerian until the day I die.” Kanu

“The Fat Wombats.” Contestant on Australian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, asked to name Aussie women’s soccer team The Matildas

“Against France we’ll have to be at our best both technically, tactically and spirit-wise.” Kevin Keegan

“It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let’s be fair, I wasn’t the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.” Pele on losing his virginity

“It was the first serious relationship I had after separating from my wife Rose. Xuxa was 15, still a virgin and had a boyfriend who she fought with. Xuxa’s father gave me permission to go out with her. I didn’t like virgins so I told her to sort her ‘problem’ with her boyfriend. Then, after a little while, we became ‘friends’ and started going out frequently.” Pele again

“We gained more from the game than they did… except they got the points.” Brian Little

“I would not sign for another club, not even if I was offered 15 million dollars. However, it would be different if they were to instead offer me 15 different women from all around the world. I would tell the club chairman: ‘Please let me make these women happy - I will satisfy them like they have never been satisfied before.” Sasa Curcic

“There is a world of difference between football and sex - no question about that. I can’t achieve an orgasm by looking at a team-mate, but it would be a totally different matter with Cindy Crawford.” Sasa Curcicn

“Wendy Toms has never been taken from behind by a 14-stone centre half.” Joe Royle

“When he was dribbling, he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.” Bobby Robson on Gazza

“Argentina won’t be at Euro 2000 because they’re from South America.” Kevin Keegan

“I’m an emotional person and I enjoy crying. You know the film Beaches with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey? Sometimes, when I want a good cry I put it on.” Sensitive Ian Wright

“They should leave David Beckham alone - he’s a great striker.” Zoe Ball

“Argentina are the second best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.” Kevin Keegan

“Is Dreamcast the name of the team?” Prince Philip’s reaction to seeing an Arsenal shirt complete with sponsor’s logo, during a trip to Highbury

“When he sees my boobs he likes to come out with the Austin Powers line ‘Machine gun jubblies - how did I miss those?’ He also goes: ‘I put the grrr in swingerrr. Yeah baby!’” Actress Emily Symons on boyfriend Matt Le Tissier

“Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.” Bobby Gould

“He’s a water carrier, a hard worker, a bit of a dog… a ferret.” David Pleat on Didier Deschamps

“He used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don’t know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he’s still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I’m not to be trusted.” Gordon Strachan on Sir Alex Ferguson

“I now have a farm in Lanark. I’ve got two pygmy goats - Gin and Tonic.” Andy Goram

“If I were Marcello Lippi, people would have had more faith in me.” John Barnes

“Darlington will become the most successful club in England.” George Reynolds

“Working with people on a field turns me on.” Graeme Souness

“I got the Shania Twain album for Christmas, but my new tip is Gabrielle. I’m a bit of a weenybopper, really.” Trevor Brooking

“I’m not going to look beyond the semi-final - but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final.” Bobby Robson

“When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.” Mark Lawrenson

“I do go to football sometimes but I don’t know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they’re called.” Victoria Beckham

“Real Madrid are like a rabbit dazed in the headlights of a car, except this rabbit has a suit of armor, in the shape of two precious away goals.” RTE Commentator George Hamilton

“Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity… with some patches of seats left empty.” George Hamilton

“Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves.” Carlton Palmer

“I’ve seen some players with very big feet… and some with very small feet.” David Pleat

“David’s most annoying habit is that he picks his toes with one of those long prong things from Boots.” Victoria Beckham

“If there’s one thing Gus Uhlenbeek’s got, it’s pace and determination.” Ray Houghton

“When you’re walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that’s a different level of competition to playing in front of 80,000 people.” Graeme Le Saux

“I’ve seen all the other Euro 2000 teams on video and no coach has as many good players as I do.” A pre-tournament Kevin Keegan

“I was inbred into the game by my father.” David Pleat

“I’m not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I’m realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don’t always work out as one would wish!” Kevin Keegan, writing in the England v Germany program

“Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.” Howard Wilkinson

“There’s still 45 minutes to go - for both sides, I would guess.” Brian Marwood

“Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.” Graeme Souness

“It should be a good match because they’re a good football team as well and we’re a good football team. It should be a very good match.” Peter Taylor

“If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.” Mark Lawrenson

“We started poorly, we finished poorly and we were poor in the middle. Even when we were 1-0 up after five minutes I knew it was a disaster waiting to happen.” Bournemouth player/coach Peter Grant

“It’s his first cap, so he’s not got a lot of experience at this level.” Brian Marwood

“Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.” Fabien Barthez

“Achilles tendon injuries are a pain in the butt.” David O’Leary

“I certainly wouldn’t put money on myself. Working as a national manager is out of the question.” Sven-Goran Eriksson, six days before accepting the England job

“If you’d been at school, he would have been the boy who ate worms.” Neil Ruddock on Stan Collymore

“I usually don’t have sex. Not on the same day. I say no thanks. I guess that, mentally, I want to keep the feeling in my feet and that’s why. I think the feeling sort of disappears out of your feet if you have sex before. I have tried before and my feet felt like concrete when you are supposed to kick the ball.” Freddie Ljungberg

“Veggard Heggem, my word, he must have a Yamaha down his shorts.” Terry Butcher

“I was a bit anxious when I got to the stadium, but in all fairness if hadn’t been anxious I’d have been worried.” Leeds’ Paul Robinson

“I like the comfort of jeans, and the elegance of a suit. But above all, I love the sensuality and sexuality that emanates from leather. It multiplies one’s sensations tenfold.” Emmanuel Petit

“England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.” Mark Lawrenson

“It’s real end-to-end stuff… but unfortunately it’s all up at Forest’s end.” Chris Kamara

“We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia, in that in order to win we needed to score more goals then they did.” Spanish coach Jose Antonio Camacho

“The reason we went out of Euro 2000 wasn’t anything to do with what happened in the last minute against Romania.” Gary Neville

“The fans might have envisaged a long string of away defeats strung together like a pearl necklace but we have shown that will not be the case.” Manchester City chairman David Bernstein

“When we go out in the evening I like to go for it. I love the traditional English gentleman look with cuff-links, highly-polished shoes and even a money clip.” David Seaman

“I have doubts about his mentality. I don’t think he’s a thousand percent mentally.” Eamonn Dunphy

“It was as if … (long pause) … the palm of Xavier’s hand deflected the ball away. And that’s what I call hand ball.” Garth Crooks

“This game is, I think, what my children would describe as ‘pants’.” Gary Lineker

“I haven’t got a clue about the exact number of women I had - four or five maybe. But I regret it deeply.” Kieron Dyer on his eventful holiday in Ayia Napa

“I like to breed players that attack people.” David O’Leary

“The Northampton striker went through the Stoke defense like a combine harvester on summer holiday.” Sky Sports’ Brian Beard

“Don’t get the idea I’m an Indian devotee but they taught their children how to listen - they had to hear the wind, the trees and the earth talk. You can hear the earth, you know.” Former German coach-in-waiting Christoph Daum, who later failed a drug test

“The players literally only have to fall out of their beds to be on the training pitch.” Dunfermline manager Jimmy Calderwood

“If you buy a man who is half-dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you’ll have major problems.” Arsene Wenger

“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” George Weah

“He walks around the kitchen going ‘I’m a gay icon, they love me.’ The thing is with David is that he doesn’t care. He’ll go out in his skirt and his bandana and he doesn’t care what people say.” Victoria Beckham

“Northampton is a massive club.” Goalkeeper Adam Sollitt

“And here’s Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.” David Coleman

“Once Tony Daley opens his legs you’ve got a problem.” Howard Wilkinson

“We didn’t underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.” Bobby Robson, after playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals

“And with an alphabetical irony, Nigeria follows New Zealand.” David Coleman

“It was like being in a foreign country.” Ian Rush, on the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living In Italy

“Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play.” Peter Lorenzo

“We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalized.” Ian McNail

“I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.” Ron Atkinson

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

“A brain scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress fracture of the shin.” Jo Sheldon

“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.” Terry Venables

 ”Football today, it’s like a game of chess. It’s all about money.” Newcastle United Fan, Radio 5 Live.

 ”England have not won a game for three months. The fact that we have not played one is irrelevant. Graham Taylor should hang, and so should his successor.” Item in Viz, September, 1993.

“A million wouldn’t buy him, and I’d be one of them.” Bill Shankley

“I used to go missing a lot - Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss Germany.” George Best

“He’s pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!” RTE’s George Hamilton on Spain manager Luis Suarez’s substitution of Butragueno during their world cup qualifier with Ireland in Seville, 1992.

“If we played like that every week we wouldn’t be so inconsistent.” Bryan Robson, Man U, 1990

“I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.” Andy Gray, Sky Sport

Richard Keys: “Well Roy, do you think that you’ll have to finish above Manchester United to win the league?”

Roy Evans: “You have to finish above everyone to win the league Richard.”

“It’s now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday.” Radio 5 Live

“I’m not a believer in luck but I do believe you need it.” Alan Ball

“Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I’m sure today’s won’t be any different.” Trevor Brooking

“And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley unless somebody knocks us out.” Dave Bassett

“And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds.” Peter Jones

“Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins.” Brian Moore

Jimmy Hill: “Don’t sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?”

Terry Venables: “I think it’s fifty - fifty.”

“The score is Sunderland nil, Leicester nil, the temperature is nil (32 degrees) and the entertainment value is not much above nil.” Sunderland v Leicester, Radio 5 Live