I was born close to soccer, and I've been living and…

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on…

— Pele

After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't get much…

— Clint Smith

I don't think I am a great. I think I've done nothing. I've done nothing in soccer. I've won leagues, but I haven't won…

— Paul Pogba

The amount of men's soccer I've watched is very low because I don't like how often they cry.

— E. R. Fightmaster

I'm a big Manchester United fan. When I was a kid, I worked with a guy who was a Man United fan, and that…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

— Jimmy Greaves

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.

— Gordon Strachan

There's one ball on the field, and that ball is mine.

— Salvador Mendoza

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and…

— Jack Kemp

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

— Desmond Morris

Soccer is Europe's biggest sport and the world's biggest sport, so as we look to go into Europe, soccer is the way to do…

— Maverick Carter

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Broken bones and skinned knees, this game is not for the weak. One ball, one goal, shoot, score! Soccer makes me whole.

— Anonymous

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

— Rio Ferdinand