Top 1200 Soccer Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

I'd sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.

I'm Ross Barkley and I've got to create a better version of the player I am and show what I can do, not try to be like someone else. That's part of what I hope I can achieve here, to make people aware of who I am as a player and show everyone what I can do.

My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.

I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.

I think the playbook in American football would be a very good idea for soccer.

I always feel like I'm coaching for my job. Just like when I was a player for nine years in Chicago. I came in every day wondering if I was going to get cut. This is no different. I come to work like I did as a player and that's to do the best I can.

On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.

I've been playing soccer since I was about nine-years-old.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president.

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

I will always support not only women who do soccer, but do youth sports.

How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.

I think that during college, I would say I did not enjoy playing soccer.

People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.

I've always gone through adversity in this game, and I've always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.

I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

With soccer, it's such a dynamic sport. It's important that however you play, you should be training like that.

I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer.

I definitely play soccer every week and try to keep life as normal as I can.

I think that was one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to be so focused on soccer that it became my whole life.

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can't have both.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

I have more of a soccer dad. He was always the one taking us to sports practice.

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.

I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

I think it's important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer... it isn't talent.

I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

I am really excited to be called into Canada Soccer's men's national team.

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

For me, scoring goals is the most fun. That's why I love soccer so much.

Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics.

You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

Playing soccer is what I've done and known all my life, starting at such a young age with my friends.

There is no question that in the '50s and '60s, black players got thrown at more. That's not a negative comment. It may come out that way, but that's the way it was. Hitting another player was part of the game; hitting a player in the head is not.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.