Soccer Quotes · Page 13

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a…

— Pele

To me personally, it's nothing personal to me

— Ron Greenwood

The dice are stacked against them

— Theo Foley

I think it will be good to be in Columbus and get pushed there and then go overseas. If there is a…

— Zack Steffen

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat

— Sammy Nelson

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

— Barry Venison

The margin is very marginal.

— Bobby Robson

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from…

— Kasey Keller

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect…

— Graeme Souness

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and…

— Steven Gerrard

“As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the…

— Franklin Foer

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

— Desmond Morris

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life…

— Ishmael Beah

I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of…

— Olly Murs

For me, it's really important to do things outside of soccer, to stay fit and ready.

— Trinity Rodman

Dad never liked American sports the way he liked European sports. Gymnastics, soccer, even circus acts - those were the things he…

— John Havlicek

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

I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.

— Jack Charlton

A young soccer player can have the newest pair of boots and then before you know it suddenly it is already outdated.

— Jozy Altidore

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

— Anonymous

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

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

— Eric Cantona

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

— Kevin Keegan

It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending…

— Pete Gill

I will be the one lifting that trophy, not Paolo Maldini. Imagine me hoisting the trophy. It is an image I have…

— Steven Gerrard