Soccer Sayings And Quotes From Various Persons

by allinspiration.com

“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’ve spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as “the sport of the future” since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.”
– Chuck Klosterman

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“We’ll still be happy if we lose. The game’s on at the same time as the Beer Festival.”
– Cork City manager Noel O’Mahoney before a game in Munich

“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

“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.”
– Cristiano Ronaldo

“Soccer is a magical game.”
– David Beckham

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

“My father used to say, ‘If you want to know the artist, look at the art‘.
– David Peace

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

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

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

“Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.”
– Ebbe Skovdahl,Danish Football Manager

“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

“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
– Eduardo Hughes Galeano

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

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

“Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community‘s fabric, a repository of traditions.”
– Franklin Foer

“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

“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

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