Soccer Quotes – A Collection Of Sayings About This Beautiful Game

by allinspiration.com

“I didn’t want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.”
– Eric Cantona

“I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.”
– Eric Cantona

“We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that’s difficult because it’s tough to do better than winning a world title.”
– Eric Cantona

“I love being an older comic now. It’s like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You’re in the Hall of Fame and it’s nice, but you’re no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.”
– Eric Idle

“If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.”
– Ethan Zohn

“Soccer is my life.”
– Ethan Zohn

“I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”
– Evangeline Lilly

“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

“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.”
– Freddy Adu

“When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta’ be creative, you gotta’ let your talent take over.”
– Freddy Adu

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

“Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.”
– Gary Allan

“Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.”
– Gay Talese

“I love soccer. That’s all I ever watch. I’ll watch it all day if I can. But I’m too bloody old to play now.”
– Geezer Butler

“As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.”
– Gordon Ramsay

“You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It’s like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon – it’s the same.”
– Haile Gebrselassie

“My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.”
– Hakeem Olajuwon

“After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.”
– Heather O’Reilly

“At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness – your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.”
– Heather O’Reilly

“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.”
– Henry Ian Cusick

“I don’t just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You’re going to look back 20 years from now and of course you’re going to remember the games. But I’m going to remember seeing my family in the stands.”
– Hope Solo

“I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome – it didn’t just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.”
– Hope Solo

“I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself – I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.”
– Hope Solo

“My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy’s little girl. He was my first soccer coach.”
– Hope Solo

“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

“My dad was a football player – a soccer player – for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.”
– Ian Mcshane

“Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they’re trying to promote it. At the end of the day it’s about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.”
– Ian Rush

“When I meet a European, the first thing I say is, “I’d much rather watch football than football.” But I’m just teasing them, and they know I’d really rather watch football than football.”
– Jarod Kintz

“I’m from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.”
– Jessica Szohr

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