Top 1200 Great Soccer Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

When I went to Seattle, it was quite a quiet town and we made it the biggest soccer following in America. We didn't have the paparazzi, though, and I needed that at the time.

I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, 'Yeah bro, we always play 'Mo Bamba.'' It's crazy.

I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.

Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.

I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

I spent my whole life as a soccer player and I've honed every skill, I continue to hone them, you can never be good enough.

San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It's time that we put our best foot forward.

I am not a person who loves to watch games and that doesn't mean I don't like soccer. I take advantage to do other things in my free time.

Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

I really didn't want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn't stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

Having the opportunity to join the FOX family as a soccer analyst in their Moscow studio for what will be my third World Cup is amazing.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

For sure working with Ferrari is a great pleasure. It's a great team, it's a great experience and it's a great dream as well to be there.

Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.

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

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.

I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

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 just might be.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

When I was pitching 'Hooligans,' with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don't want to see a picture about soccer thugs.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.

No head coach does it by himself. I don't care who the coach is or how great he might be. Mike Krzyzewski is is a great friend of mine and he's a great coach but he has great, great assistant coaches and they bring a lot to the table and that's what it takes.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.

Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don't care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can't manufacture that.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

I've been dealing with the Special Olympics since I was young. On Sundays I used to go help monitor little soccer practices.

I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.

We are glad not only to bring a professional soccer team to Miami but also to support all of its communities through our social responsibility commitment.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all