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"Some people might think I am going to go there for vacation -- I do actually go there for vacation -- but it won't be for vacation this time.''
Thierry Henry joins the NY Red Bulls.
"I feel a broken man, completely disconsolate, frustrated and an unimaginable sadness."
Crisitano Ronaldo expresses his grief after losing to Spain.
"We know South Americans are impulsive and temperamental and cannot lose."
German fullback Phillip Lahm stokes the fires ahead of the clash with Argentina.
"I know I was offside, I know it was selfish but as long as they say it was a goal it's OK for me and the team."
Argentine striker Carlos Tevez admits his first goal against Mexico should have been called back.
"Yesterday evening they drank beer before the game. And I saw the team play with the spirit that we lost in the games we played before this game."
England coach Fabio Capello suggests that beer revived the English spirit.
"To have the worst football team at the World Cup was already unbearable. To also have the most stupid is intolerable… The mutiny at Knysna will forever remain the Waterloo of French football."
French daily Le Parisien lambasted the French team after their Nicolas Anelka reportedly called his coach a “dirty son of a whore” and the rest of the players refused to practice. They have supposedly returned to the field at last.
"We all know how the French are, and Platini is French, and he believes he is better than rest."
Diego Maradona lashed out at UEFA president and French soccer legend Michel Platini, who reportedly denigrated Maradona’s coaching ability. The Argentine also threw some barbs at Pele for old time’s sake.
"He is really a goalkeeper but he's really fast, so we switched him to a striker… But this World Cup, he said he wanted to be a goalkeeper again."
Kim Jong-hun, media officer for North Korea’s team explains the team’s attempt to add an extra striker in an allotted goalkeeper slot.
"The surprise is me. I am the only surprise in this whole team."
Maradona on… Maradona. Surprise.
"It was cool... A big elephant, just eating on the path out of our hotel."
Carlos Bocanegra and the US team were stuck in a traffic jam when an elephant decided to stop on the road for a snack.
"I was telling Javier Mascherano yesterday that I had sweaty palms."
Diego Maradona as usual shares a little too much about nerves ahead of the World Cup.
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Get your team’s T-shirt.
“The players can have sex with their wives and girlfriends during the World Cup. Players are not Martians. But it should not be at 2 a.m. with champagne and Havana cigars.”
Dr. Donato Vallani, Argentina’s team doctor, The Associated Press, May 27, 2010 from V.F.‘s soccer blogging.
"When Zidane arrived it was a strange atmosphere like God was coming on earth."
Florent Molouda admits his French soccer team have some problems to fix if they are going to win the World Cup. For one, God is dead, or something like that.
“Congratulations to Phil Mickelson. Condolences to the corporate issuance market."
Ken Jaques, credit and derivatives manager at Informa Global Markets, who links Tiger Woods’ wins to big bond sales.
"Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline, and sport is not spared by this law."
-Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games
“We’re seeing the evolution of an outstanding basketball player who’s not satisfied."
Jim Cleamons, a coach for the L.A. Lakers, on the evolution of Kobe Bryant’s game.
"I'm not a racist. I'm not like that. I'm just a happy person."
Sammy Sosa denies use of skin-whitening cream a la Michael Jackson.
“I hope it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.”
Mets fan Chuck Rose hopes for a rainout thus avoiding the indignity of watching the Yankess play the Phillies in the World Series.
"Ridiculous... Can I say it any clearer than that? We should have never had a day off last Wednesday. We should never have three days off after the season. You shouldn’t even have two days off after the season."
Angels manager Mike Scioscia expresses displeasure with the slow development of the playoffs.
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