Soccer Quotes
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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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Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
Morgan Freeman
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I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.
Pablo Francisco
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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
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I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.
Jack Charlton
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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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If I couldn't get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.
Christen Press
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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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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
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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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Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
Shakira
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In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.
Clint Smith
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I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.
Ella Mai
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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
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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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I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.
James Snyder
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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
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Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.
Brett Hull
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Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
Arsene Wenger
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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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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
Parminder Nagra
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I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories.
Kevin Nealon