Best 530 quotes in «soccer quotes» category

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.

He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.

He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his feet in no time and getting on with it. He is a strong character and a great sight when he's heading for goal.

He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa.

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything.

How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I always just had a dream to spend more time with my father. But at the end of the day, my mom was the one who kept me in soccer,who kept me doing my homework, who provided me with meals on a daily basis.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

I don't hold water with that theory

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.