Soccer Quotes

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

Is he ever going to learn?

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

We lost because we didn't win.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

Soccer is a magical game.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.

I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

I'm running out of words to describe this lad.

As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.

It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

We know that we are close to making history.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.