Soccer Quotes
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The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
Pele
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I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events.
Linda Sue Park
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If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
Mike Ditka
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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
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People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests. I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.
Adam Richman
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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
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Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"
Keith Burkinshaw
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As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
Karren Brady
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We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.
Mary-Kate Olsen
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Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is a great outlet for aggression.
Chris Reifert Autopsy
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
Andres Iniesta
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Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won every tournament where I haven't had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don't think I'm going to change that.
Carli Lloyd
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill Shankly
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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
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I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.
Kelley O'Hara
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My dad has been to every soccer game that I've played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.
Alex Morgan
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I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.
Mekhi Phifer
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When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.
Freddy Adu
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In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.
Clint Smith
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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
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I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.
Kylie Bunbury
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I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.
Brandi Chastain