Best 530 quotes in «soccer quotes» category

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

Maybe they hate me because I'm too good!

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

My dad had a couple of professions in mind for me. He either wanted me to be a doctor because he said male doctors make a lot of money, or he wanted me to be a soccer player. Myself, I thought that I would really love being a pilot for the Air Force. I really wanted to be a part of the Air Force.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

My heroes were always soccer players.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.