Soccer Quotes · Page 28

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

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

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

— Terry Venables

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay…

— Frank Lampard

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

— Robbie Savage

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity…

— Freddy Adu

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa…

— Ron Atkinson

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy.…

— Patrick Wilson

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea,…

— Juliet Mills

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle…

— Nick Hancock

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms…

— Eduardo Galeano

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is…

— David Mamet

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's…

— James Surowiecki

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do…

— Alex Morgan

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

— Jim Anderson

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

— Bob Paisley

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

— Marcello Lippi

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

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces.…

— Tobin Heath

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

— Xabi Alonso

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

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

— George Orwell

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

The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word 'soccer' is Chelsea.

— Josh Hart

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

— John Madden

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

— Kyle Chandler