Soccer Quotes · Page 14

In my country, the kids start to play soccer when they are seven or eight.

— Alessandro Nesta

Growing up as a competitive athlete and playing Division 1 soccer, my entire life was based around hydration.

— Alex Cooper

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

— Tim Howard

I think the playbook in American football would be a very good idea for soccer.

— Julian Nagelsmann

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

— Shay Given

On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.

— Josie Totah

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

— David Coleman

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

— Freja Beha Erichsen

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

He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

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

“(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They…

— Franklin Foer

I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was…

— Maluma

Red Bull is committed to providing not only quality domestic soccer, but also quality international soccer. You can't get much better than…

— Alexi Lalas

It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I…

— Fabio Capello

Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the…

— Martin Samuel

I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

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

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

— Eduardo Galeano

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

— Toni Kukoc

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

— Tony Adams

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

— Fabio Capello

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

— David Ginola

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

I played soccer when I was little, but I wasn't very good at it.

— Trevor Bauer

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