Soccer Quotes
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Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.
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I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.
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I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
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At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.
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That goal surprised most people, least of all myself
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I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.
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I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
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When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.
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...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
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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.
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It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
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Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.
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I decided to have a life: to become - pardon the expression - a soccer mom.
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Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
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It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.
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Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa are the heroes in their community.
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I love watching sports programmes, specifically soccer. Then less so, probably golf. And I like playing golf, as well... If the weather is good, which is not very often in Dublin! And generally, I like reading magazines and books. So that basically takes most of my time up.
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I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
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Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
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U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.
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I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
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Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.
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Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.
