Soccer Quotes

• In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

  

  David Ginola
  • Fun
  • Beach
  • Soccer

• I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Soccer

• 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

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• 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 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

• But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Find
  • Soccer

• There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Up
  • Young
  • Indian

• Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

  

  Mal Peet
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Baseball

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • People
  • Happy
  • Team

• A lot of young women play soccer, and it's wonderful to give them something to aspire to.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Women
  • Soccer

• Soccer can be very subtle; it's a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don't see it, that could be a reason why someone might stand out more than I do. But that's just the way I've grown up playing the game.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Because our father played professional soccer, being in the spotlight never felt weird to me and my brother. We always felt we could do anything.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Weird

• I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• 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'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Love
  • Game
  • Mom

• In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Soccer
  • Own
  • Hockey

• I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

  

  Xavi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Home
  • Sports
  • Trump

• In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Life
  • Different
  • American

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