Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heather Mitts

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

James Joyce

All human history moves towards one great goal

Lamar Hunt

We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking at ways to improve Arrowhead-which is oriented for NFL games--for our spectators.

Lamar Hunt

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

Kyle Schmid

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

Libba Bray

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

Johnny Weir

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

Luis Suarez

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

Luis Suarez

Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

Angela Ruggiero

You could see when she scored, she wasn't celebrating. That's just how she is. She's a goal-scorer, in hockey, in soccer and in lacrosse. That's just what she does.

Roberto Mancini

You can't play soccer like this. It's unbelievable. The team was very tense having to play without fans. It's really absurd.

Eric Idle

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

You can see there's a lot of soccer in that player, so we're hopeful.

Not me. I've got three kids. I've got to get back for soccer practice.

That just speaks tremendously of the soccer in this area.

Nelson Mandela

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

Nelson Mandela

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

Nelson Mandela

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Neil Warnock

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

Neil Warnock

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

Neymar

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

Joe Royle

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

Joe Royle

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

Joe Royle

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

Joe Namath

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

John Gregory

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

Evangeline Lilly

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Mike Royko

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

P. J. O'Rourke

The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

Matt Groening

A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Jud Tylor

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

Knute Rockne

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Knute Rockne

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.