Soccer Quotes

• I play on a soccer team.

  

  Jake Short
  • Team
  • Soccer

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Player
  • Star

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

  

  Xavi
  • Age
  • Career
  • Alone

• I do not play football, I score goals.

  

  Dadá Maravilha
  • Play
  • Football
  • Goals

• When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Team
  • Environment

• I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Nature
  • Football
  • Sports

• Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Soccer

• I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • Perfect
  • Dog
  • Soccer

• Soccer is a magical game.

  

  David Beckham
  • Game
  • Soccer

• For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That's how I see football - fun and dynamic - and this goes beyond me; it's a characteristic of Brazilian football.

  

  Neymar
  • Fun
  • Father
  • House

• I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • People
  • Kids
  • Soccer

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Spanish

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

  

  Norman Whiteside
  • Men
  • Play
  • Common

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Music
  • Athlete

• To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Sacrifice
  • Soccer

• I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

  

  Halsey
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

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