Soccer Quotes · Page 18

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.

— Mitch Hedberg

Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

— Thomas Muller

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.

— Vahid Halilhodzic

I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.

— Kylie Bunbury

“If God wanted us to play soccer, he would've given only 1 in 11 people arms.”

— Mike Ditka

And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton

— David Coleman

Soccer is like a poem, you write it with your soul and heart, but you say it with your feet.

— Humaira

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

— Royce Gracie

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got…

— Kuno Becker

People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests. I think in the U.K. people perhaps know…

— Adam Richman

I grew up in Rochester, New York, where we had the North American Soccer League. Rochester were at the time the worst…

— Joel Glazer

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They…

— Bill Shankly

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and…

— Johnny Giles

Soccer. I was a late convert. I didn't get into it until I lived in Amsterdam for a while in my 20s,…

— Brendan Hunt

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted…

— Zinedine Zidane

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by…

— Tommy Docherty

[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm…

— Elana Meyers

It's been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other…

— Christian Pulisic

Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing.…

— Darell Hammond

I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was…

— Kate Voegele

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate…

— Simon Barnes

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame…

— Roger Federer

Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue…

— Simon Kuper

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

— Ondino Viera

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I…

— David Beckham

The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.

— Edgar Davids

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

— Ron Atkinson

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

— Landon Donovan

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

— Timothy Weah

I used to play soccer when I was little, but everybody played soccer when they were little.

— Jrue Holiday

Soccer is more than a ball and some goals. Soccer is the reason I wake up everyday and breath.

— Humaira

Blood clots. Bones heal. Tears dry. Suck it up, its just soccer!

— Humaira

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

— Roy Keane

I couldn't settle in Italy-it was like living in a foreign country.

— Ian Rush

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

— Jose Calderon

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

— Gay Talese

In soccer and in life, you cant score if theres no goal on the field.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Desmond Morris

There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.

— Dominic Allen