Soccer Quotes · Page 29

When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.

— Viv Richards

Basketball is such a global sport, being second to soccer.

— Robin Lopez

And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

— Barry Davies

I don't like the competitive part of soccer. It's a war in short pants. I prefer art

— Shakira

They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

— Steve Bruce

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

— Dennis Bergkamp

It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.

— Casey Korkus

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be…

— Roy Keane

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and…

— John Piper

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support…

— Dennis Bergkamp

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as…

— Bill Shankly

I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give…

— Lauren Holiday

It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder,…

— Ian Rush

If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyones expectations is the number…

— Hope Solo

As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to…

— Alex Morgan

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a…

— Mark Zupan

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

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

I remember losing my first rec soccer game and being so mad and so upset. Most kids don't think about that when…

— Justin Tucker

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and…

— Marta

We win we lose , we bleed , we sweat we cry but you never know cause somehow the tears blend into…

— Arish

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.

— John Carew

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

— Sepp Herberger

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

— Mia Hamm

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

— Jake Epstein

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

— Elizabeth Taylor

We are really quite lucky this yeara because Christmas falls on Christmas Day

— Bobby Gould

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby…

— Louis C. K

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

— Alan Green

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six

— Fred Dinenage

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

— Nelson Mandela

I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.

— Lily Collins

Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.

— Carlos Vela

I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.

— Zico

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

— Chad Ochocinco

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

— Jose Mourinho

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

— George Boateng