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The ball is round and the game lasts 90 minutes. Everything else is theory. (Sepp Herberger)

Then came the penalty shootout. We all had our pants full, but for me it went very smoothly. (Paul Breitner)

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be tense and vibrating like a guitar string. (Pele)

One mustn’t talk about everything as badly as it was now. (Fredi Bobic)

Some think football is a matter of life and death. I do not like this configuration. I can assure you it’s much more serious than that. (William Shankly, Scottish football player and coach)

“Jürgen Klinsmann and I are a good trio.” Then: “I meant a quartet.” (Fritz Walter)

I hope we have a little bit lucky. (Lothar Matthäus)

I look not back, I look in front. (Lothar Matthäus)

German players don’t stop fighting until they’re on the bus. (Ronald Koeman, Dutch soccer player)

We play best when the opponent isn’t there. (Otto Rehagel)

Got shit on your foot, got shit on your foot (Andreas Brehme)

Milan or Madrid. The main thing is Italy! (Andi Moller)

I had a good feeling about it. (Andi Moller)

We have to roll up our heads now. And the sleeves too. (Lukas Podolski)

Soccer is like chess. Just without the dice. (allegedly by Lukas Podolski, but actually by Jan Böhmermann, who put the Podolski in his mouth)

I’ve spent a lot of my money on alcohol, women and fast cars. I squandered the rest. (George Best, Northern Ireland footballer)

The Swedes are not Dutch – you could see that very clearly. (Franz Beckenbauer)

An EM is even more balanced than a World Cup, because there are also teams from the other contingent at a World Cup. (Michael Ballack)

Most games that ended 1-0 were won. (Gunther Netzer)

In the decisive moments we simply lacked bad luck. (Danny Black)

We dominated 99 percent of the game. It was the other three percent that cost us the game. (Ruud Gullit, Dutch soccer player)

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher)

“Complaining about boring football is a bit like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it kind of misses the point. (Nick Hornby, writer [High Fidelity, Fußballfieber])