Top 1200 Soccer Ball Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

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

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

If I'm not working on music, I'm probably torturing my infant daughter, Ingrid, with kisses or running or playing soccer in the park.

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's team.

I felt, you know, coming from Philadelphia, the image they put out of me, I think I had three years to go out there and prove to everybody that no, he's not that type of guy. He's a team guy. He loves to obviously get the ball - what receiver do you know, or do you want, on your team that don't want to get the ball?

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

I really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

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've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

Thierry Henry, I mean, he's someone who I became a fan of when I was getting into soccer while living in Amsterdam.

I could be a model for one night. But I'm also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain." The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. "Oh, dear," Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn.

Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.

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.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

My favorite postgame treat as a kid was the sliced oranges. We had those when I played soccer, too, at halftime.

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

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.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

I think women don't see themselves and their sexuality as wholesome. And yet men's sexuality is everywhere. We experience it as a culture in stadiums, thousands of raging fans of male sexuality, screaming, "Kick the ball over the goal post. Get the ball in the hoop. Score a home run." Male sexuality lives in that prowess of the scoring, of conquering, of getting, of that beautiful male energy of domination, aggression, and the competition.

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

He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.

Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, 'I'm a Madrid fan until death.'

I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

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

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I'm cleaning the house or making dinner.

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

I look at the game like, 'How can I impact it not just standing there?' Just try to be active offensively setting screens, doing stuff like that, but I'm also trying to be active driving the ball to the hole, finishing, one-dribble pull-ups and stuff like that. Just playing ball and not being robotic. Just evolving.

Soccer is always changing and evolving, and I think our national team has had to change with the times.

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.

Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.

Soccer. I was a late convert. I didn't get into it until I lived in Amsterdam for a while in my 20s, and now I'm a zealot. It's the best.