Soccer Quotes · Page 17

Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net

— Mike England

And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

— Alan Parry

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

— Ray Hudson

A game of soccer is popular because its rules don't change often.

— Anurag Thakur

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

— Brandi Chastain

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

— John Helm

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

— Terry Venables

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

— Xabi Alonso

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

— David Beckham

I have my own brand called Monta, including a specially designed street soccer ball made out of a denim material which fades…

— Edgar Davids

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

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

— Mario Kempes

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but…

— Jimmy Greaves

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using…

— Craig Johnston

When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before…

— Christen Press

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater,…

— Peter Jacobson

Its kind of frustrating. I play with Eniola Aluko, an English player, and we were talking just the other day about how…

— Hope Solo

He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has…

— Virat Kohli

Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many…

— James Mattis

You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the…

— Daniel Finkelstein

It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an…

— Matthew Engel

My dad had a couple of professions in mind for me. He either wanted me to be a doctor because he said…

— Wilmer Valderrama

This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border.…

— Justin Raimondo

Girls can be funny and play sports and show how to do the perfect soccer kick if they want.

— Eva Gutowski

U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose

— Des Lynam

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

— Rinus Michels

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness

— Mike England

Growing up, I played soccer and wanted to be a sportsman.

— Ranjeet

I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer.

— Julie Ertz

We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

— Gareth Barry

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

— Tobin Heath

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

— Simon Kuper

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

— Mario Kempes

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

— Bill Shankly

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

— Clint Dempsey

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

— Roger Taylor