Soccer Quotes · Page 32

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

— Jose Mourinho

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

— Eduardo Galeano

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

— Freja Beha Erichsen

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

— Shay Given

On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.

— Josie Totah

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left

— David Coleman

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

— Tony Adams

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

— Fabio Capello

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

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

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

— John Piper

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

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

— Eduardo Galeano

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

— Bill Shankly

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

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop…

— Alan Hansen

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis.…

— Rafael Nadal

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

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

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

— Hope Solo

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

— Toni Kukoc

We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.

— Lionel Messi

Soccer's a funny sport. You never know. You might find a last-place team beating a first-place team.

— Weston McKennie

If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan.

— Frank Deford

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

— David Ginola

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

— Lionel Messi

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

— Steven Gerrard

“Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.”

— Steve Locker

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

— Brandi Chastain

“Soccer is a simple game its the players that make it complicated”

— Willie Watson Mancheser United

Soccer, I enjoy a lot. But I think my career is going to be in football.

— Sebastian Janikowski

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

— Steve Jones

Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

— Paolo Di Canio

Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

— Ian Darke

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

— Anthony Jeselnik