Soccer Quotes – A Collection Of Sayings About This Beautiful Game

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“I suppose young people think football is glamorous – soccer – it’s big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.”
– Bryan Ferry

“Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn’t let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, ‘I’m going to quit,’ he’d be like, ‘No, you’re going to try everything and keep going at it’.”
– Carlos Pena, Jr.

“I read somewhere that spiders can spin silk strong enough to hold the weight of a thousand trucks. I tried to imagine those lines of silver, thinner than air, stronger than steel. Sometimes I think that a hundred webs, invisible gossamers, connect Gracie and me. They coat our bodies, tie our limbs together, link our hearts. They can stretch across cities, countries – even anger. Unbreakable. I felt them that first time I watched her play soccer.”
– Cath Crowley

“Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.”
– Chad Harbach

“When I’ve done gymnastics, ballet or soccer – I was always trying to be the best. I’m really driven. Really driven.”
– Chloe Moretz

“I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we’re in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.”
– Claudio Reyna

“I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn’t really there yet.”
– Claudio Reyna

“Over the last 10-15 years, you’ve seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.”
– Claudio Reyna

“Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.”
– Claudio Reyna

“The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that’s how the sport will grow.”
– Claudio Reyna

“When I see myself in the videogame it’s amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I’m looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.”
– Claudio Reyna

“I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.”
– Clive Owen

“After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.”
– Cobi Jones

“I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.”
– Cobi Jones

“I never thought I’d play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.”
– Cobi Jones

“The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It’s an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you’ll be saying, ‘Wow, it’s over already?’ You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.”
– Cobi Jones

“OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn’t make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.”
– Craig Johnston

“In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect.”
– Danny Mcbride

“You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I’ve been doing are based on different people I might’ve had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.”
– Danny Mcbride

“I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.”
– David Ginola

“American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent’s goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.”
– David Mamet

“How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?”
– Desmond Tutu

“Football is the ballet of the masses.”
– Dmitri Shostakovich

“I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It’s so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That’s an overwhelming environment.”
– Donal Logue

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

“The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it’s my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men‘s national team around when they play whenever I can.”
– Drew Carey

“When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.”
– Drew Carey

“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
– Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there’s only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.”
– Emanuel Steward

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