Football quiz: boastful quotes

Footballers and managers have never been shy to blow their own trumpets. Can you put a name to the boast?

  1. “I won’t be the King of Manchester, I will be the God of Manchester.”

    1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

    2. Cristiano Ronaldo

    3. Eric Cantona

    4. Nani

  2. "If you ask me if I am one of the best strikers in the world, I say yes because I believe it. When I see that other strikers score a lot of goals, I realise I need to score those goals. But I think everything else in my game is right. Even if I believe I can still improve. But the goals are the last thing I need to add and when I do I believe I will be the player I want to be. One of the best."

    1. El Hadji Diouf

    2. Nicklas Bendtner

    3. Daniel Sturridge

    4. Mido

  3. “Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.”

    1. Zinedine Zidane

    2. Phil Neville

    3. Johan Cruyff

    4. Cristiano Ronaldo

  4. "If I don't win the prize of best player in the Premiership it will be a great let down. This is not vanity but reality. I believe that, today, I am the best in the league."

    1. Cristiano Ronaldo

    2. Luis Suárez

    3. Didier Drogba

    4. Thierry Henry

  5. "I wouldn't say I'm the best manager in the world but I'm definitely in the top one."

    1. José Mourinho

    2. Brian Clough

    3. Sam Allardyce

    4. Fabio Capello

  6. “I respect everyone’s preferences, but I’ve never seen anyone better than me. I have always thought that. No footballer can do the things I can. There’s no player more complete than me."

    1. Pelé

    2. Kevin Prince-Boateng

    3. Diego Maradona

    4. Cristiano Ronaldo

  7. "This may sound a little cocky but after Franz Beckenbauer I am the second most famous German soccer personality around the world. Germany should be ashamed of the way it treats such an idol."

    1. Lothar Matthäus

    2. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

    3. Gerd Müller

    4. Jürgen Klinsmann

  8. "What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange."

    1. Christian Benteke

    2. Nicklas Bendtner

    3. Mista

    4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  9. "My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards."

    1. José Mourinho

    2. Phil Neville

    3. Brendan Rodgers

    4. Zinedine Zidane

  10. "My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me."

    1. Pelé

    2. Mido

    3. Diego Maradona

    4. Cristiano Ronaldo

Solutions

1:A - He's such a humble soul., 2:B - The Dane revisited this quote after joining Nottingham Forest in 2016 and said: “I actually don’t regret saying I want to be the best striker in the world, because that’s what everyone wants. It’s just that no one wants to say it.", 3:C - The Dutch legend backed his own ability., 4:C - The former Chelsea striker was feeling pretty good about himself in 2006., 5:B - He wasn't called Ol Big 'Ed for nothing., 6:D - Of course it was him., 7:A - The man just wants some respect., 8:D - Zlatan was never going to be happy with only being the correct answer to one question was he?, 9:B - The England Women's manager probably didn't achieve what he wanted, given that he will step down in 2021., 10:C - Diego has never been shy of telling the world that he thinks he is the greatest of all time. "There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pelé. Everyone would say me."

Scores

  1. 10 and above.

    You're the GOAT! Now go and boast about it!!!

  2. 9 and above.

    You're very good at quizzes about boastful footballers. You should go and boast about it.

  3. 8 and above.

    You're good at quizzes about boastful footballers. You should go and boast about it.

  4. 7 and above.

    You've scraped into the Europa League qualifiers. Not that it's worth boasting about.

  5. 6 and above.

    You've achieved mid-table mediocrity. Well done.

  6. 5 and above.

    You've just avoided relegation, not that it's anything to boast about.

  7. 4 and above.

    Nothing to boast about here. Rank average.

  8. 3 and above.

    Nothing to boast about here.

  9. 2 and above.

    This is so bad you could might even want to boast about it.

  10. 0 and above.

    Let's forget this ever happened.

  11. 1 and above.

    Let's forget this ever happened.

Contributor

Gregg Bakowski

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