Soccer Quotes
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After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.
Heather O'Reilly
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When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
Kendall Jenner
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All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.
Lisa Vidal
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I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.
Valentino Rossi
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My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
Janine di Giovanni
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I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.
John Ridley
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I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If I'd focused more on that when I was a kid, it would've been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.
Alex Morgan
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My three children played soccer and lacrosse. I grew up as a Green Bay Packers fan. I am not against sports. We want kids to play sports, but we want them to be safe.
Ann McKee
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The women's national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity issues. Millions of young women play soccer in this country, and it's empowering for them to see that our contribution to the game is valued.
Becky Sauerbrunn
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I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.
Ugo Ehiogu
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Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football.... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.
Channing Tatum
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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 was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.
Jinder Mahal
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I went to a soccer high school, and it was really different to being on 'Idol.' So I decided to quit school, and I put all my energy into music, and things started to happen.
Astrid S
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After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't get much playing time, which forced me to determine who I was beyond the field, something I had previously never had to do.
Clint Smith
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There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
Clint Smith
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Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.
Jack Charlton
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I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.
Ali Krieger
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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.
Clint Smith
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My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
Freddy Adu
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What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
Sean Durkin
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You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?
Daniel Finkelstein
