Soccer Quotes · Page 13

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

— Fabio Capello

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

— Lionel Messi

We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.

— Lionel Messi

If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan.

— Frank Deford

Soccer's a funny sport. You never know. You might find a last-place team beating a first-place team.

— Weston McKennie

What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?

— Amanda Nunes

In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

— Helenio Herrera

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was…

— Bo Jackson

A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a…

— Eduardo Galeano

If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality…

— Christopher West

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so…

— Joseph O'Neill

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is…

— Harry Redknapp

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

— Sergio Busquets

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World…

— Cobi Jones

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be…

— Lilian Thuram

They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did…

— Michael Lewis

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes…

— Eric Cantona

Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I…

— Lindsey Horan

The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his…

— Phil Cornwell

So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then…

— General Butt Naked

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by…

— Tom Dunne

I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is…

— Adam Richman

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

— Brandi Chastain

“Soccer is a simple game its the players that make it complicated”

— Willie Watson Mancheser United

Soccer, I enjoy a lot. But I think my career is going to be in football.

— Sebastian Janikowski

“Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.”

— Steve Locker

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

— Steven Gerrard

Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

— Ian Darke

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

— Anthony Jeselnik

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

— Paolo Di Canio

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

— Steve Jones

“If anyone needs a role model for inspiration in any field, then Messi is the Man.”

— Avijeet Das

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

— Dan Marino

Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is

— Garth Crooks

There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered

— Jimmy Armfield

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

— Pete Gill

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

— Jack Charlton