Soccer Quotes · Page 24

And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

— Alan Parry

Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net

— Mike England

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

— George Orwell

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

— Simon Kuper

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

— Tobin Heath

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

— Gareth Barry

We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer.

— Julie Ertz

Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.

— Frank de Boer

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing…

— Xavi

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine…

— Pele

“Somehow you still get a kick out of comparing yourself to people who have completely different goals than you.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I play over-35s soccer on the weekend to get my fix of running into people and crashing and bashing, and I still…

— Adam Goodes

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I…

— Mitch Hedberg

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being…

— Tony DiCicco

Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and…

— Markus Zusak

As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that…

— Arsene Wenger

The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an…

— Ann Coulter

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really…

— Elizabeth Strout

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads…

— Andrew Gross

England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of…

— Matt Dickinson

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin…

— Juan Enriquez

Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country…

— Landon Donovan

“He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed…

— Stephie Davis

Growing up, I played soccer and wanted to be a sportsman.

— Ranjeet

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness

— Mike England

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

— Rinus Michels

When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.

— Alphonso Davies

I always encourage youngsters in America to play soccer.

— Jim Harbaugh

You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.

— Bryon Butler

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to…

— Geezer Butler

We cannot play soccer without hands. You need your arms while running.

— Niko Kovac

Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen

— Des Lynam

Hopefully we will see a lot of women doing sport and especially soccer, because I love soccer.

— Frank de Boer

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

— Paul Lambert

When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.

— Robbie Williams

As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

— Karren Brady

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

— Johan Cruijff

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

— Dave Barry

There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

— Ron Atkinson