Top 1200 Soccer Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

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

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

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.

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.

I want to be known as a Christian baseball player and I'm still trying to grow into that. But in the end, I want to be more Christian than baseball player.

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.

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

Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

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

We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

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.

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

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.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

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.

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

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

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

I have a lot of players I like to see. For example, in my first few years, the player I think is the one everyone liked and always will like is Ronaldinho. For me, he is the player with the capacity to take you and put you in front of the TV, and you will stay for hours. For hours!

Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?

I think David Johnson is getting better, if that's possible. I think he's a really good player. I think he can do a lot of things. He's big. He's explosive. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. You can line him up out wide. I think he's a very dynamic player.

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

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. It's great.

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.

Dirk was obviously a player that I looked up to. In high school I actually wore No. 41 in honor of Dirk. He was the first player where I was like this guy is seven-feet tall and shooting jump shots and shooting threes, this is what I want to be like.

Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.

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

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

My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.

Going to Stade Francais will not just make me a better player but make me a better player for England.

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

It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

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

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

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

From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.

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'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.