Soccer Quotes · Page 19

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

— Bryan Robson

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

— Bobby Robson

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

— Terry Pratchett

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

— Nia Jax

He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.

— Steve McClaren

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in…

— Michelle Obama

I grew up playing soccer and it's definitely my first love.

— Adam Goodes

Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

— Pete Gill

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are…

— Xavi

I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical…

— Alex Morgan

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good…

— Bryan Ferry

Even when I'm training alone, I always prefer doing soccer-related stuff. On my own, I'll run through cones or do some shooting…

— Alex Morgan

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had…

— Peter Beardsley

For me, I grew up watching the best soccer team play, which is Barcelona in 2009, and many of my idols played here.

— Joao Cancelo

I think every American boy should play soccer till the eighth grade. Then they should play football. American football.

— Jim Harbaugh

Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

— P. J. O'Rourke

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…

— Terry Eagleton

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me…

— Carlos Pena, Jr

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when…

— Jimmy Fallon

It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest…

— Jose Mourinho

It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending…

— Pete Gill

Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks…

— Phil Cornwell

Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into…

— Darell Hammond

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

— Alexander Volkanovski

Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.

— Ron Atkinson

I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, 'Yeah bro, we always play 'Mo Bamba.'' It's crazy.

— Sheck Wes

“Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.”

— E.O. Wilson

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

— Gerry Francis

A lot of young women play soccer, and it's wonderful to give them something to aspire to.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I was a soccer player, but everyone said I was too physical so I moved over to football.

— Chris Hogan

In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

— Clint Smith

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

— Tanc Sade

Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.

— Pamela Druckerman

Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, 'I'm a Madrid fan until death.'

— Carlos Vela

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

— Thierry Henry

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

— John Oliver

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

— Andres Iniesta

I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

— Lionel Messi