Top 1200 Soccer Ball Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I'm from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.

In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.

I'm not scared of any other player, but I normally know the quality of the others and try to be ready before the game. But I don't forget my own style to play soccer.

I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm a little bit of a soccer dad.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.

I played a lot of sports growing up - soccer, softball, basketball, track - and started playing on a club team when I was 12. That's when I fell in love with volleyball.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

Move with them, be active with them - whether it's swimming or scooting or bicycling or playing soccer. Engage your child.

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.

I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn't want a child-star model, so I didn't get into modeling until I was 14.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it's not like I never exercised.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton - two sports every season - and I was named female athlete of the year twice.

When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.

I was studying sociology in college and I was a big soccer player. That's something not a lot of people know about me. I'm a girly girl, but I'm also a secret tomboy.

If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

I am not very tall but I am intelligent as a soccer player.

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.

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

If you have mental toughness then on days when you go to Hull, the pitch is bobbly, the wind howling, you end up with something. It's as much about that as silky soccer.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.

I went to high school in Rockville Center on Long Island. It's this small, soccer-loving town that my parents moved to, from Queens, before my brother and I were born.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.

I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, 'come on, try to choose a different sport.'

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.