Soccer Quotes

• Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

  

  Ian Darke
  • Football
  • Winning
  • Soccer

• OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • Football
  • Player
  • Soccer

• I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Family
  • School
  • Happy

• I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

  

  Clint Smith
  • School
  • High
  • City

• The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Me
  • Soccer

• While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Football
  • Tennis
  • Soccer

• I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • America
  • Growing
  • Soccer

• Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

  

  Brian Kilmeade
  • Soccer

• 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.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Soccer

• I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

  

  James Snyder
  • School
  • High
  • Player

• We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • World
  • Winning
  • Beach

• In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Job
  • Game
  • Team

• I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • Up
  • America
  • Culture

• Soccer fans spend almost as much time outdoors as we do! Whether you're heading out onto the field for practice or cheering from the sidelines, throw a broad spectrum sunscreen into your bag to help protect your skin from the sun.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Time
  • Help
  • Practice

• Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • People
  • Game
  • Death

• I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Football
  • Player
  • Winning

• The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For me, it is nice to get away from the soccer field and have these other things to clear your mind. You don't have to be good at it; you just do it and enjoy it. It is nice to have that balance, and I need that balance in my life.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • People
  • Men
  • Energy

• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  

  Lorrie Fair
  • World
  • Practice
  • Soccer

• When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.

  

  Brandon Jay McLaren
  • Great
  • Soccer
  • Grandma

• 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.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Real
  • Parents
  • Star

• I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Goals
  • Soccer

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