Quotes about soccer
soccer growing-up kids
I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer. Hope Solo
soccer football teacher
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. Ian McShane
soccer moving player
Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play. Ian Rush
soccer country funny-football
I couldn't settle in Italy-it was like living in a foreign country.
soccer team league
Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team? Ian St. John
soccer sports growing-up
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. Ian Botham
soccer ifs
If they hadn't scored, we would've won. Howard Wilkinson
soccer way compromise
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. Howard Hughes
soccer football stupid
Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget. Gianfranco Zola
soccer football thinking
David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability. Glenn Roeder
soccer yoga hiking
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. Jessica Szohr
soccer sports football
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football. Gilbert K. Chesterton
soccer player natural
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. Hakeem Olajuwon
soccer country winning
You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same. Haile Gebrselassie
soccer football skills
Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit. Graham Roberts
soccer shearer
Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness. Graham Taylor
soccer football left
It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.
soccer way results
It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.
soccer people half
People always remember the second half.
soccer football
Is he ever going to learn?
soccer ideas life-is-like
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
soccer morning school
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards. Ishmael Beah
soccer clubs headache
This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really. Elton John
soccer sports interesting
I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying. Ian MacKaye
soccer team years
You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.
soccer football sitting
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare. Harry Redknapp
soccer football lifeboats
It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.
soccer football stupid
Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.
soccer football player
I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.
soccer football war
What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.
soccer football couple
I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!
soccer player want
Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer. Abby Wambach
soccer games want
You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.