Soccer Quotes
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I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.
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I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.
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I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.
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It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.
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Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
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I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
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Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.
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I want to be involved in soccer some way.
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Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.
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Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
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I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.
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You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.
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I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
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I want to set myself as a real legend in the sport, like Phelps and Mark Spitz are remembered worldwide. I want people to say, like they say of Ronaldo that he is the best soccer player in the world, I want them to say Chad Le Clos is the best swimmer in the world.
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I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
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Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.
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I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.
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There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
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Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
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Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.
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I love soccer; I want to be on the field.
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I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.
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I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.
