Soccer Quotes

• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Player

• Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Great
  • Football
  • Clubs

• Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Energy

• I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• (After kicking an extra point in a Bengals preseason game) Esteban' Ochocinco is back, the most interesting footballer in the world. Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my No. 1 sport. I think Ronaldinho would be proud of me right now.

  

  Chad Johnson
  • World
  • Remember
  • Game

• While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • American
  • Football
  • English

• I actually got my start playing indoor soccer with the boys, a bunch of boys I played with. We eventually became a club team and then essentially got to the point where I couldn't be a girl on the boys' team, so I switched over to JB Marine.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Girl
  • Team
  • Marine

• Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Challenge

• Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

  

  Billy Beane
  • World
  • Why
  • Friends

• I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Basketball
  • Soccer

• Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Playing
  • Writer
  • Soccer

• My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Football
  • Son
  • Thankful

• I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Think
  • Soccer

• I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Attention

• Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You're running; you're getting tackled.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Running
  • Soccer

• I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • People
  • Women
  • Soccer

• Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Soccer
  • Hug
  • Warm

• All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Creativity

• Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • True
  • Model
  • Professional

• I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • School
  • High
  • Player

• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Band
  • Years

• I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Friend
  • Gay

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