Soccer Quotes – A Collection Of Sayings About This Beautiful Game

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“And of course in America you’ve got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.”
– Parminder Nagra

“But I think it’s also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It’s something to do with that as well. You can’t show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.”
– Parminder Nagra

“In terms of soccer, it wasn’t really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It’s to each their own, really.”
– Parminder Nagra

“There’s apparently soccer leagues that they’ve set up with young Indian girls.”
– Parminder Nagra

“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”
– Pele: The Autobiography

“Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I’m in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I’ll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.”
– Peter Facinelli

“Football is the poetry of a motion.”
– Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

“For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.”
– Richard Calland

“If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.”
– Roberto Fontanarrosa

“I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.”
– Rod Stewart

“I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn’t stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.”
– Roger Federer

“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”
– Scott Caan

“I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.”
– Shailene Woodley

“We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.”
– Shaun White

“I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.”
– Shiri Appleby

“Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.”
– Stephen Chow

“He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. “So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?”
– Stephie Davis

“My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.”
– Steve Nash

“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.”
– Terry Eagleton

“In Europe, it’s different – you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.”
– Thomas Dooley

“People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.”
– Thomas Dooley

“What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.”
– Thomas Dooley

“Soccer’s not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.”
– Tiffeny Milbrett

“I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.”
– Unknown

“I really want to try soccer after I retire because I’ve watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.”
– Usain Bolt

“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.”
– Vidal Sassoon

“Like most people I can be lazy, so it’s nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I’m outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.”
– Viggo Mortensen

“I played English football – soccer – instead of American football, because we couldn’t afford the equipment.”
– Wally Schirra

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