Soccer Quotes · Page 33

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

— John Aldridge

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

— Gary Lineker

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

— Lawrie Sanchez

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

— Robin Leach

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

— Gordon Strachan

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

— Desmond Morris

I love soccer and I've always been a fan of players who stay with their teams for a long time.

— Nikola Vucevic

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

— Vladimir Putin

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the…

— Nick Hornby

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to…

— Lily Rabe

I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once.…

— Jose Mourinho

The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see…

— Jack Kingston

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might…

— Brian Clough

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and…

— Haile Gebrselassie

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I…

— Mia Hamm

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I…

— Fernando Torres

I am a fascist, not a racist. I give the straight arm salute because it is a salute from a 'camerata' to…

— Paolo Di Canio

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that,…

— Sherman Alexie

I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's…

— Alex Ferguson

The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than…

— Rod Liddle

Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple…

— Phil Cornwell

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her,…

— Eduardo Galeano

He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club…

— Joe Kinnear

I've been going to soccer games since I was a kid. For me, soccer brought people together. You didn't need money to…

— DJ Snake

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

— Derek Johnstone

Being able to play sports in a school or public environment was everything for me - basketball, soccer, track.

— Harrison Barnes

I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.

— Elana Meyers

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

— Eduardo Galeano

My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.

— Aaron Mooy

If marrige isnt a soccer game,then why is their so many goals..?

— Marissa

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

— Alan Green

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

— Steven Gerrard

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

— Samuel Eto'o

To be honest I never watch a tennis match. I watch basketball a lot, soccer, never tennis.

— Gael Monfils

And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.

— Elton Welsby

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

— John Bishop

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

— Henry Winter

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

— Cesc Fabregas

We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

— Joe Royle

I decided to have a life: to become - pardon the expression - a soccer mom.

— Marcia Clark