Soccer Quotes

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. 'So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?'

At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.

There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.

I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

There's no honor in soccer

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

Really, off days for soccer players are just recovery days. You're trying to get off your feet as much as possible.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I'm a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little bit of soccer.

All human history moves towards one great goal

Well Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

We have been saying this, both pre season and before the season started

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president—I even dated the homecoming queen.

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.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

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

Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we?

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.

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

And meade had a hatrick. He scoresd two goals

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.

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.

And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.