FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP

gonso wrote:
Good ones, gonso

"Football is like chess, only without the dice"
(Lukas Podolski, at least he played a good game, but i wouldn't invite him for an after-dinner speech)

"Sometimes you lose, sometimes the others win"
(Otto Rehagel, german coach of the greek team)

"Milan or Madrid -- the most important thing is it's Italy"
(Andreas Möller, WC winner 1990)

"You don't always need to have an absolute majority behind you, sometimes 51 percent is enough"
(Football coach Christoph Daum shows that sometimes using 51 percent of your brain is not enough)

Comment by svinto: An absolute majority is when 2/3 (66.7%) of the voters/members/congregation agreed on something. 51% or more is plain majority.

more funny wisdom here:

Code:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,558638,00.html

yes, German footballers and trainers do tend to be a little weird in their utterings... Commenters are none better...

"There he goes, a great player! A man like Steffi Graf!"
Jörg Dahlmann

"They shouldn`t believe that they are Brazilians, just because they come from Brazil!"
Paul Breitner

"Jürgen Klinsmann and me, we are a good trio... (bit later) I mean, a quartet!"
Fritz Walter Jun.

"Sex before a match? My boys can do whatever they like. Halftime-break is off limits, though!"
Berti Vogts

"The scotch team usually gets home earlier than their picture postcards..."
Wilfried Mohren

"This match really needs a goal now!"
Günther Jauch as live commenter in the legendary game Real Madrid against Borussia Dortmund 20 minutes after the goal tipped over and still was not repaired

Some more football pearls:

Ronaldo on his baby:
"He will be called Ronald, because we like going to McDonald's."

Thierry Henry on what it takes to win:
"Sometimes in football you have to score goals."

Ian Rush on Italy:
"I couldn't settle in Italy. It was like living in a foreign country."

Wayne Bridge on winning:
"If you don't concede any goals you'll win more games than you lose."

Mark D****r on Italian clubs:
"I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona."

Ugo Ehiogu on his happiness:
"I'm as happy as I can be, but I have been happier."

Johan Cruijff on failiure:
"It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision."

Johan Cruijff on life:
"People say life is like a stream. They're right. Just a while ago I wanted to spit into the wind and I hit my own face."

Ruud Gullit on what cost them the match:
"We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other 3% that cost us the match."

Ruud Gullit on playing Holland:
"To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch."

Johan Cruijff on football
"Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner."

Vahid Halilhodžić responding to criticism:
"It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0."

Thierry Henry on diving:
"Next time I'll maybe learn to dive, but I'm not a woman."

Barry Venison on Newcastle:
"The Newcastle back three, back four, back five have been at sixes and sevens."

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

Trevor Brooking on Euro 2000
"Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000."

Trevor Brooking on Paul Scholes:
"Fortunately, Paul Scholes' injury wasn't as bad as we'd hoped for."

Trevor Brooking on football:
"That's football Mike; Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored, but England have had no chances and scored twice."

Trevor Brooking on second chances:
"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."

Trevor Brooking on a certain player:
"He's chanced his arm with his left foot."

Terry Venables on answering a question:
"I've been asked that question for the last six months. It is not fair to expect me to make such a fast decision on something that has been put upon me like that."

Terry Venables on dressing room tension:
"If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen."

Terry Venables on winning and losing:
"You either win or you lose. There's no in between."

Terry Venables on Norway:
"Apart from their goals, Norway wouldn't have scored."

Terry Butcher on cup football:
"The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath."

Pele on who will join Brazil in the semi-finals:
"I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals."

Mark Lawrenson on what makes a great game:
"To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first."

Howard Wilkinson on opportunities:
"As one door closes, another one shuts."

Howard Wilkinson on his beliefs:
"I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first you have to score twice to win."

George Hamilton on Dino and Roberto Baggio:
"The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related."

David Pleat on scoring:
"Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some. Or occasionally."

David Pleat on Maradona:
"For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls."

David Pleat telling the time:
"We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half."

David O'Leary on taking chances:
"If we had taken our chances we would have won, at least."

Chris Kamara on a certain referee:
"Not only has he shown Junior Lewis the red card, but he's sent him off."

Andy Gray on Moldova:
"I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop."

Bobby Robson on legs:
"He's got his legs back, of course, or his leg; he's always had one but now he's got two."

Bobby Robson on Sweden:
"Eighteen months ago they (Sweden) were arguably one of the best three teams in Europe, and that would include Germany, Holland, Russia and anybody else if you like."

Bobby Robson on home advantage:
"Home advantage gives you an advantage."

Bobby Robson on Ray Wilkins:
"Ray Wilkins' day will come one night."

Bobby Robson on what football is all about:
"I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about."

Gordon Strachan in a press conference:
Reporter: "So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were better than you today?"
Strachan: "What areas? Mainly that big green one out there."

Gordon Strachan in a press conference:
Reporter: "Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?"
Strachan: "No; I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump of a bridge! I think I can take it, yeah."

Gordon Strachan on Delgado:
"I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish; the expiry date is today. That can be my priority rather than Delgado."

Ron Atkinson on referees:
"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat."

Bill Shankly to Kevin Keegan:
"Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son."

Bill Shankly to a Liverpool trainee:
"The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head."

(IMO, Gordon Strachan and Bill Shankly ones are priceless )

Apparently Spain (A **** in Spain) are trying to sign Paul the Octupus from the Germans

I know why El Pulpo Paul looks so sad nowadays. He predicted the end of Forumophilia for August 1st 2010

waldimo wrote:

Thanks South Africa...
Congrats Spain....

... and I am very sad about Paul's latest prediction.

I'd say, let's fry that Octupus

Once Australia got knocked out I was going for Paraguay, then they got knocked out so I went for Germany... Then spain beat them so I went for the Netherlands in the final hahaha.

I'm a massive jinx with soccer it seems

~Dragons_Princess~ wrote:

I hope you don't support Liverpool

you better check the crowd shot pics on page 37....there may be an underage fully dressed girl cheering in the crowd with everyone. it is forbidden to post under 18 years old, even if they are fully clothed, cheering, and a tiny speck in the picture.

at first FO died and now Paul, too..

waldimo wrote:


So sad...

I was a big fan of him, especially as an actor in Japanese porn-movies:


Man, did he had a way with the ladies...


R.I.P. porno-Paul.

A nice way to remember Paul