Soccer Quotes · Page 22

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

— Johan Cruijff

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

— Cristiano Ronaldo

I don't like the soccer industry and yes, I do like to play.

— Carlos Vela

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

— Matthew Syed

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

— Pele

The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

— Mike Ingham

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

— Anonymous

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

— Bill Shankly

“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it…

— Bill Shankly

“[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.”

— John Sutherland

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you?…

— Delia Smith

I think that was one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to be so focused on soccer that it became my…

— Julie Foudy

I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is…

— Landon Donovan

When I'm with friends, when I have time, I like to play soccer, and I think it's still my passion, still my…

— Lothar Matthaus

We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their…

— Lynda Carter

I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what…

— Ben Askren

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to…

— Neil Diamond

My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I…

— Ferran Adria

Soccer players in L.A. can kind of just walk the streets. They have bigger people to take pictures of. They see Sylvester…

— Ashley Cole

“He looks at me, the circle, then me again. “It’s really you, right? I didn’t create some simulacrum that was inhabited by…

— Vaughn R. Demont

One of my favorite things about soccer is how the art and the passion of the game somehow unites people and nations…

— Tobin Heath

You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or…

— Landon Donovan

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well…

— Parminder Nagra

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

What's a soccer mom but a general category that hides great variation?

— Zeynep Tufekci

I never cry about what I don't have. I'm always positive.

— Fabio Capello

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

— Rafael Nadal

I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.

— Kerry Kennedy

I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

— Kevin Bond

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

— Martin Jol

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

— Brian Clough

“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.”

— Anonymous

In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

— Anne Robinson

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

— Thierry Henry

You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

— Matt Bahr

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

— Bobby Charlton

I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.

— Kylie Bunbury

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.

— Vahid Halilhodzic

Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

— Thomas Muller

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.

— Mitch Hedberg