“Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.”
The Guardian interview (2008)
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Argentine association football player 1926–2014Related quotes
“Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
At the Brussels summit, turning to the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm <br class="br">2003
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
http://www.insideworldsoccer.com/2013/08/jose-mourinho-real-madrid-is-politics.html <br class="br">2010
“I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Said to William Westmoreland in 1960 when Westmoreland assumed the post of Superintendent of West Point.
Cited in [Atkinson, Rick, The Long Gray Line, First Pocket Books printing, 1991, Simon & Schuster, New York, ISBN 0-671-72674-9, p. 79, Year of the Tiger]
1950s
“Steven Gerrard was a great player and Rob Brown knows nothing about football”
Juan Román Riquelme (1978) Argentine footballer
“This guy should never play football again. What is he doing on the football pitch?”
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
Martin Taylor, who injured Arsenal striker Eduardo. (23 February 2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/23/newsstory.birminghamcityfc <br class="br">Context: This guy should never play football again. What is he doing on the football pitch? I've gone along with the idea for a long time that to stop Arsenal, you have to kick Arsenal. I knew that was coming for a long time now.
Herm Edwards (1954) American football player, coach and analyst
With Kansas City <br class="br">Source: Herm's Game of Chess http://web.archive.org/web/20090112034939/http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/09/06/rand_herms_game_of_chess/ www.kcchiefs.com, 6 September 2007
“Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!”
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: Boys "R" Us