Soccer Sayings And Quotes From Various Persons

by allinspiration.com

Here’s a collation of numerous soccer sayings and quotes from various personalities of the game. Be inspired and have a good laugh at the same time.

“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

“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

“Ce que je sais de la morale, c’est au football que je le dois.”
– 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

“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 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

“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 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

“I don’t like to see players tossed off needlessly.”
– Andy Gray

“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

“The underdogs will start favorites for this match.”
– Anthony Hudson, Australian Football Commentator

“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

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

“We didn’t underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought.”
– Bobby Robson

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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