Soccer Quotes – A Collection Of Sayings About This Beautiful Game

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“At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.”
– Jo Nesbo

“I don’t think I’ll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.”
– Jo Nesbo

“Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.”
– Johan Cruijff

“I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.”
– John E. Walker

“Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals’ ideological riots sometimes kill millions.”
– John Mccarthy

“[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don’t go to football matches but that doesn’t make football any less important.”
– John Sutherland

“My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.”
– Juliet Mills

“I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn’t get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.”
– Kathy Griffin

“My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.”
– Kyle Chandler

“I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.”
– Lady Gaga

“I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.”
– Lamar Hunt

“Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, ‘No, you’re going to be normal, you’re going to go to school, you’re going to get good grades, you’re going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year’.”
– Laura Benanti

“Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there’s no way I couldn’t improve.”
– Lorrie Fair

“If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I’ve had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.”
– Lorrie Fair

“I’ve had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.”
– Louis C. K.

“I’ve lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.”
– Marat Safin

“We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren’t on an official team or anything, but we’d definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.”
– Mary-Kate Olsen

“I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president – I even dated the homecoming queen.”
– Matthew Morrison

“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.”
– Mia Hamm

“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.”
– Mia Hamm

“Soccer isn’t very social. Plus, if you don’t like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.”
– Mia Hamm

“I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.”
– Mia Hamm

“Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.”
– Michelle Obama

“If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.”
– Mike Ditka

“I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I used to go to my kids’ soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn’t screaming, because I’d have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.”
– Neil Diamond

“[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?”
– Nick Hornby

“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon.”
– Nick Hornby

“I’m a soccer mom. I’m T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I’m at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.”
– Pamela Anderson

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