Soccer Quotes – A Collection Of Sayings About This Beautiful Game

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collation of soccer quotes and sayings. Appreciate the world’s beautiful game and enjoy some inspiration and humor about football.

“Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.”
– Adam Oates

“One reason outfielders don’t have stronger arms might be they don’t practice as much as we did. Most teams today don’t take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.”
– Al Kaline

“My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he’s 33 and being a professional while I’m playing soccer with my friends. Ha!”
– Alanis Morissette

“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).”
– Albert Camus

“I don’t pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn’t care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.”
– Alexander Kluge

“Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I’d be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.”
– Ali Larter

“I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn’t hold my attention. I couldn’t figure skate. I’m afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.”
– Alicia Sacramone

“When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on ‘The Biggest Loser,’ I realized I just wanted to be healthy – to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.”
– Alison Sweeney

“Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they’re not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.”
– Alton Brown

“I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.”
– Alyson Hannigan

“I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.”
– Andres Iniesta

“In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.”
– Andres Iniesta

“I don’t like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger – soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.”
– Andrew Gross

“I was on Oprah’s show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn’t even go into my family, who had the most influence.”
– Andrew Shue

“Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.”
– Andrew Shue

“I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.”
– Andy Murray

“That’s the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey – and know they can win a gold medal, too.”
– Angela Ruggiero

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

“I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.”
– Anne Northup

“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

“By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.”
– Ayelet Waldman

“Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.”
– Bill Shankly

“After the ’96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.”
– Brandi Chastain

“I have a 16 year-old son, so I’m now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.”
– Brandi Chastain

“I love soccer; I want to be on the field.”
– Brandi Chastain

“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

“I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.”
– Brandi Chastain

“I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.”
– Brandi Chastain

“I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.”
– Brandi Chastain

“I went to professional men’s soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.”
– Brandi Chastain

“My parents and my grandfather on my mom’s side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.”
– Brandi Chastain

“Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.”
– Brandi Chastain

“To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.”
– Brandi Chastain

“I want to be involved in soccer some way.”
– Brian Mcbride

“It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.”
– Brian Mcbride

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