Top 1200 Great Soccer Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

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.

We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.

In 2005, I would have never guessed that I was at risk for a pulmonary embolism. I was 21 years-old, playing college soccer and just living the dream.

I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition.

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.

Everybody loves tennis or soccer there. That's another reason for these unbelievable tennis players from Tandil.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

People told me I was more of a soccer player, not a football player.

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

I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I'm an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I'm always thinking about how to balance my meals.

I played basketball and soccer but they are very different games, obviously. However, playing any kind of sport always helps you develop physically.

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.

The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-working Colorado families.

I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.

Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

My dad played in the National Soccer League in Australia and also played football in Malaysia.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.

African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very good as they are becoming role models for the youngsters on the continent.

After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.

I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

I played soccer in college, at this little school in North Carolina called Campbell. It was the only place in the world where they would offer to pay for everything.

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.