Top 1200 Soccer Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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

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

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

I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The way he can control the tempo of games, and his range of passing, are both incredible. We’ve seen over the years that players just haven’t been able to get near him. And you can’t forget his goals either.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There are many clever contractual ways to let a young player continue his career elsewhere while still having first option to bring them back in future. Contracts can include a buyback clause such as Barcelona had with Cesc Fabregas, or a sell-on clause where the development club benefit financially from all the work invested in the young player.

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

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different... like a bass player or a keyboard player - they're not more important than any other musician.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

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

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.

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

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

One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ. Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve.

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.

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

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

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

I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.

I'm not the fastest player, but you can't really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can't play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I'll back them down. I'm a good post player.

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

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

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

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.

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

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

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

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.

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

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.

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

[ Won the 2015 African Player of the Year]meant everything to me. It was the first time a footballer from Gabon was elected Africa's Footballer of the Year. Even for the Bundesliga, it was something no African player had ever achieved. It still makes me incredibly proud and the happiest person on the planet.

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

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

When I hear about a player losing his money, I'll rarely, if ever, point a finger at the player because I know how difficult it is. It's not always, 'Look at this idiot who got paid all these millions of dollars and lost it all.' It may be more like, 'This naive kid with a million things going on in his life put his faith in the wrong people.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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