George Hamilton Quotes

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

To score is always special; to score in the Bernabeu for Atletico is incredible.

I've played against Messi a lot of times, and I've already conceded goals through my legs with him.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

Playing goal is like being shot at.

Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

It only takes a second to score a goal.

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

Was it a game of #UCL or was Messi in a Play Station game? Impossible! If he scores 6 goals, can he take home 2 balls?

At the same time the players around me almost make it an automatism to score goals. We have so much quality and speed on the pitch - the genius of players like Mario Gotze or Marco Reus has to lead to goals.

Very few great goals actually go in.

That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.