Soccer Quotes · Page 22

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

— Samuel Eto'o

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

— John Aldridge

I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

— Lionel Messi

The only thing I can only love in this world is, SOCCER!!

— Gerardo Barragan

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

— Fabio Capello

I grew up playing every sport: basketball, soccer, baseball, but I really fell in love with American football.

— Ben Shelton

I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

— Mekhi Phifer

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

— John Oliver

Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball…

— Goran Dragic

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am…

— Ronaldinho

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

— Anonymous

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but…

— Hope Solo

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

— Rod Liddle

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo…

— Ken Bates

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just…

— Pele

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like…

— John M. Gottman

You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the…

— Johan Cruijff

Listen, I never expected to be a professional soccer player - never in a million years - because it just wasn't possible…

— Owen Hargreaves

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It…

— Anson Dorrance

“If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know…

— Jim Anderson

What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral…

— Marcello Lippi

I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to…

— Bob Paisley

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take…

— Al Kaline

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

— Andres Iniesta

Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, 'I'm a Madrid fan until death.'

— Carlos Vela

Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.

— Pamela Druckerman

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

— Thierry Henry

A lot of young women play soccer, and it's wonderful to give them something to aspire to.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I was a soccer player, but everyone said I was too physical so I moved over to football.

— Chris Hogan

I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

— Tanc Sade

In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

— Clint Smith

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

— Gerry Francis

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

— Bryan Robson

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

— David Beckham

Any one who thinks Sunshine is happiness, Has never played Soccer in the rain!

— Humaira

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

— Raul Lopez

Soccer in Argentina is just different. It's a little more dynamic.

— Miguel Almiron

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

— Colin Cowherd