Those Players And Their Wonderful Quotes!!!

[tinytim]

ok, post here the phrases once said by players and head coaches (or anyone football-related) and which marked media pages and news for a while...no matter what's the reason, if funny of nasty.

'A classic match is a classic match and vice-versa'
Jardel, ex-Porto Player

'I dribbled the keeper, kicked it, the ball went, went and...wented!'
Paulo Nunes, ex-Gremio Player, mistakenly pronouncing a verb, in portuguese, of course.

'You'll have to swallow me!'
Zagallo, after brazilian victory in America Cup final, 3-1 over bolivia in 1997

"Everydoby is happy now, the King, the Prince and The Fool'
Romário, ironically referring to Edmundo and Eurico Miranda, Vasco da Gama's president, due to a little fight with Edmundo over who should be the captain and penalty kicker.

'When I was born, God pointed at me and said: 'He's the man!'
Romário, quite modest.

'I heard Jesus saying: stroke it with power and the outside part of the foot'
Marcelinho, former Corinthians idol, explaining how and why he scored a free kick goal from 40 meters distance against arch rival Palmeiras, stating that after a little prayer to Jesus before kicking it, he 'oriented' him about the 'divine' way to score it...oh god!

Pao de Açucar (or Sugar Bread) is the name for two things in Brazil: a natural monument, two little mounts in Rio de Janeiro where a famous cable car carries tourists every day, giving a beautiful view of the 'Wonder City' and it is also the name of a very famous Super Market Net, ran by Abilio Diniz a reaaally rich man (one of his sons is a racer, Pedro Paulo Diniz).

Ok, then Fabio Baiano (actually playing in Atletico Mineiro) was flipping a celebrities brazilian magazine which showed Pedro Paulo Diniz huge house and possesions. He said:

Fabio Baiano: Wow, Jamir, this Pedro Paulo Diniz guy is really wealthy!

Jamir: Don't you know him? He's the owner of Pao de Açucar!

Fabio Baiano: ...

Fabio Baiano: Wow...I could never tell those little cable cars could make such money!!


that previous story and the following was told by Jamir, his team mate...

Fabio Baiano was in a plane, travelling with the team he played in tha time (Flamengo). Then, a stewardess served him something. He wanted to make a big impression over the girl, and tried that:

Fabio Baiano: Wow...I have never talked to a troglodytic girl before!

He wanted to mean polyglot, but didn't know the word!!


HAHAHAAH!!

some pics from him, in previous clubs:

http://www2.uol.com.br/espnbrasil/images/40rodada/fabiobaiano.jpg

http://mengotimao.blig.ig.com.br/imagens/fabio_baiano_faz_falta.jpg

http://www.santosfc.com.br/arquivos/id_2263_santos6.JPG


post your ones, folks...

 

[santino]

anything from claudio ranieri

 

[henry#14]

Nothing beats Zlatan

At the press conference after the game against England. (2004) Thanks to John S for the tip.
Reporter: "You´we got some scars in your face, Zlatan. What has happened?"
Zlatan: "Well...I don´t know...you´ll have to ask your wife about that"

"Is your playing style Swedish or Yugoslavian? (TV3 Denmark, 2003). Thanks to Stefan S for the tip.
"It's Zlatan-style."

Zlatan about the rumour that he bought a super-Porsche. (Aftonbladet, Nov 28, 2002)
"Absolutely not. I have ordered a plane. It is much faster."

What would you name your son? (Chat on Ajax.nl, Aug 26, 2002)
"Zlatan jr."



About if his new haircut in the World Cup was inspired by Magnus Hedman. (Aftonbladet, May 2002):
"No, I just went in and cut my hair and this is what I looked like when I came out."



About where he comes up with his moves. (Expressen, May 2002):
"They just come, I promise. It is nothing that I plan."

Answer to critizism from John Carew that Zlatan's moves are pointless. (VG, April 2002):
"What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange." (meaning that Carew doesn't come close to having the same technical skills as Zlatan)

"Is there anything in the world that could stop you from becoming no 1 in the world?" (2001):
"An injury."

About being able to walk in to a car outlet and be able to buy any car you want (from "Blådårar 2") (2002):
"You'll have to get used to it."

On his move on Stephane Henchoz of Liverpool (there has been some doubts whether his move was on Henchoz or Hyypiä):
"First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog."

On the question what his girlfriend got when they got engaged:
"What she got? She got Zlatan."



On the question whether he would dribble defender Chivu, one of his teammates:
"I would dribble him. But he is still the best I have met."

About growing up after five months with Ajax:
"You can't be a clown all the time."

About being stuck on the Ajax bench:
"My time will come."

"Who is the most beautiful girl in the world?" (2001):
"I haven't met her yet, but when I do, I will date her."

About the relation to Ajax coach Co Adriaanse:
"I often think back to the feeling I had when I just started over here. I was a tiger, ready to face the world. Adriaanse gave me the feeling I am player you use for only ten minutes. I am full of ambition to become that tiger again."

About Hasse Borg of Malmö FF:
"Hasse keeps telling me I wouldn't have made it if I hadn't met him. But he always brags. I would have made tunnels on him all the time." (laugh)

To Malmö FF coach Michael Andersson during practice:
"Do you think that you are my mother?"

Answer to the question "If I say Anders Svensson and Kim Källström, what do you say?":
"Zlatan."

Answer to the question "What are you NOT going to say when you meet your teammates in Ajax for the first time?":
"I am Zlatan, who the hell are you?"

On Malmö FF's return to the first division (2002):
"I will strike like lightning in Allsvenskan."

 

[Kibe Kru]

Pão de Açucar = Sugar Loaf...
other than that, good post tim!

and Zlatan!! lol

 

[Stotty]

Nothing beats Gordon Strachan

Gary Lineker - So Gordon, if you were English, what formation would you play Strachan - If I was English I'd top masel (BBC yesterday)

Reporter: Gordon, Do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad?
Strachan: I don't care, I'm Scottish.

Reporter: "Gordon, can we have a quick word please?"
Strachan: "Velocity" [walks off]

Reporter: Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?
Strachan: No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, "No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless."

Reporter: Is that your best start to a season?
Strachan: Well I've still got a job so it's far better than the Coventry one, that's for sure.

Reporter: Are you getting where you want to be with this team?
Strachan: We're not doing bad. What do you expect us to be like? We were eighth in the league last year, in the cup final and we got into Europe. I don't know where you expect me to get to. Do you expect us to win the Champions League?

Reporter: Gordon, you must be delighted with that result?
Strachan: You're spot on! You can read me like a book.

Reporter: Gordon, Agustin Delgado?
Strachan: I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yoghurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today. That can be my priority rather than Agustin Delgado.

Reporter: This might sound like a daft question, but you'll be happy to get your first win under your belt, won't you?
Strachan: You're right. It is a daft question. I'm not even going to bother answering that one. It is a daft question, you're spot on there.

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 off a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.

Reporter: There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?
Strachan: Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. . I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick, down negative man, down.

Reporter: where will Marion Pahars fit into the team line-up?
Strachan: Not telling you! It's a secret.

Reporter: You don't take losing lightly, do you Gordon?
Strachan: don't take stupid comments lightly either.

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...

Reporter: So. Gordon. Any plans for Europe?
Strachan: Me and the wife were thinking Spain in August...

Number Two...One Last Strachanism

Southampton manager Gordon Strachan on Wayne Rooney...

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Carlos*son than Sven Goran Eriksson

 

[henry#14]

Beckham
In an interview they asked him whether or not he wants to Christen his son. Beckham replied 'I definatley want Brooklyn Christened, I just don't know in to what religion'.

Jason McAteer
There's the story about him filling in a credit card application form and where it asked "position within company" he wrote "right back." Then there's the story about him ordering a pizza at a restraunt, and when asked whether he wanted his pizza cut into quarters or eighths, he replied "quarters, I'm not hungry enough to eat 8 slices".

Robbie Savage
He once smashed a glass table at the bottom of his stairs in his house, he couldn't be bothered to clean it up until the morning so he went to bed, the next morning he walked down the stairs and forgot about all the glass and promptly cut his foot to ribbons. he missed a few matches because of that.

Jardel-this just made me pity the guy:
When Gremio went to play Ajax in the 95 Toyota cup final, the Brazilian market has just opened up for foreign cars and their were quite a few Asian manufacturers in the streets.

When he arrived in Japan he said: "WOW, their is loads of imported cars here in Japan"

Claudiu Raducanu from Espanol-quite a few:
When he was 6, he broke a window while playing football inside his house, so his father took the football and threw it out the window. He jumped after it from the 3rd floor.

When he got transferred from Extensiv Craiova to Steaua Bucuresti, he took the train to Bucharest. When he arrived, he felt the train station was so big that he got scared and took the train back.

He was watching TV one day, with Claudiu Niculescu [ex-Genoa, now in Dinamo Bucharest. Actually, this short story was told by Niculescu] and there were the news on TV. It was very hot outside, so the news presenter said: "Heat is killing people all over the country." Terrified, Raducanu replied: "Who the hell is this Heat guy?! He's killing people everywhere."

Sir Bobby Robson
"Some of these trees are from the time of Christ. Some of them two hundred years old"

Upon commenting on Terry Butcher's performance
"Terry Butcher!? Was he playing!?"

Kevin Keegan classics: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/6687/keggy.html

Bobby Robson: http://www.dangerhere.com/issues/issue46-160402/robson1.htm

 

[Joe Star]

Strachan a damn legend :Bow:

Mourinho & Wenger are full of stuff like this as well. I cant give any examples but i've seen some pretty funny quotes from them

 

[faceNside]

Santiago Cañizares cut his Aquiles tendon with a broken cologne flask, and missed the 2002 WC :fool:

 

[tinytim]

Pão de Açucar = Sugar Loaf...
other than that, good post tim!

and Zlatan!! lol

ooo...thanks for clarifying this! hehe...I'm not familiar to all the usual day-to-day english expressions.

I guess I should put Paulo Nunes' better...maybe the best 'distortion' would be:

'The ball was going, going, going...and goed!'

hehehe...

yeah, Zlatan may be even worse than Romario!!! good god...swedish guys are always like that when it comes to jokes...Per Gessle, Roxette's and Gyllene Tider's singer is always ironic and straight like that.


oh, I remember something from 2000...

Beckham stated to the press, in a interview he gave shortly before FIFA World Cup of Clubs in 2000, that he wears Victoria's pantees while he plays football...heheheheh...

someone asked Ronaldo about it...he said...

'That's a fruit (gayish) thing'.

I'd like to know if Beckham wanted to know from Ronaldo what does he really think about it now...hehehe...

 

[shokz]

Fergie responding to Alan Hansen questioning his future in September 2002
"My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fücking perch...and you can print that."

Kevin Keegan reveals a Manchester City dilemma, August 2003
"Manchester United have just signed a £36 million deal with Vodafone, whilst our sponsors have gone bust."

Alan Hansen, August 1995
"You'll never win anything with kids"

Eric Cantona
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think that sardines will be thrown into the sea"

Eric Cantona explains his famous sardines quote
"My lawyer and the officials wanted me to speak. So I just said that. It was nothing, it did not mean anything. I could have said 'The curtains are pink but I love them'"

Eric Cantona
"It is fortunate that most players are not like me or there would be anarchy."

Eric Cantona threatens sports journalists on a French television chat show in March 2001
"Look at these small fry. I could piss on them"

Kevin Keegan on Sky Sports after his Newcastle side lost to Leeds during the 1995/96 title run-in
I've kept really quiet, but I tell you something, he went down in my estimation when he said that. We have not resorted to that, and i tell ya, we're still fighting for this title and i tell ya, honestly, I would love it if we beat them, love it.

Gerrard Houllier, January 2003
"At some stage, the club will win the title and win the Champions League under me. That's for sure."

 

[WilliamFAlmeida]

lol

 

[Elber2k3]

Andreas Möller
Milan or Madrid - I want to play in Italy.

 

[TOON ARMY]

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

Ian Rush
'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.'

Brian Clough quotes:
‘That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror, rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.’

'For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!' - Referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups

'I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard'
- On dealing with Roy Keane.

'Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes' - On England's exit from Euro 2000.

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea" - On Manchester United's decision to opt out of the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship in 2000.

"The Derby players have seen more of his balls than the one they're meant to be playing with" - On a streaker who once interrupted a Derby County-Manchester United match.

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" - On his own success.

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there"

 

[mark77]

'My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.'
- 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 can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.'
- Stuart Pearce


'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.'
- Mark Draper

 

[mika]

lmao

this is some funnie sh*t

post more

anyone have any audio's?

 

[Voltaic Borusse]

'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.'
- Ian Rush

'I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.'
- David Beckham

'Sometimes in football you have to score goals.'
- Thierry Henry

'I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.'
- Les Ferdinand

'Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today.'
- Steve Lomas