I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I… — Sergio Aguero Copy Share Image
After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than… — Cobi Jones Copy Share Image
The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see… — Johnny Giles Copy Share Image
From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play… — Serge Ibaka Copy Share Image
I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I'm not a big soccer fan,… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I actually got my start playing indoor soccer with the boys, a bunch of boys I played with. We eventually became a… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother's… — Jud Tylor Copy Share Image
When people ask me what club I supported growing up, I didn't really watch club soccer. The only channels I got had… — Clint Dempsey Copy Share Image
Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's… — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be… — Heather Mitts Copy Share Image
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was looking forward to playing soccer, playing more minutes on the pitch, and I didn't have the chance to play more… — Bastian Schweinsteiger Copy Share Image
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving… — Briana Scurry Copy Share Image
Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try… — Steven Gerrard Copy Share Image
He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play… — Heather Mitts Copy Share Image
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
“Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pregnancy. She and… — Koko Brown Copy Share Image
I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together - all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds… — Ali Krieger Copy Share Image
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave… — Bob Paisley Copy Share Image
Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly. — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
As a soccer player you want to perform, whether it's in front of 72,000 or even 1,000. You always want to be… — Alphonso Davies Copy Share Image
Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing… — Chris Reifert Copy Share Image
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
