I don't like the competitive part of soccer. It's a war in short pants. I prefer art — Shakira Copy Share Image
My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano. — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger Copy Share Image
The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word 'soccer' is Chelsea. — Josh Hart Copy Share Image
A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is… — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow. — Sergio Busquets Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World… — Cobi Jones Copy Share Image
It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did… — Pele Copy Share Image
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the… — Claudio Reyna Copy Share Image
“Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
We'd wait for my dad to come home from work, and he'd take 15, 20 minutes to just throw a football or… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It's like baseball, basketball… — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image