Soccer Sayings And Quotes From Various Persons

by allinspiration.com

“Raul, man, he’s like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.”
– Ray Hudson

“If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?”
– Ray Stubbs

“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

“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening’s Arsenal game/riot. Take away their Cockney accents, and these working-class guys might as well have been a couple of Bubbas gearing up for the Alabama-Auburn game. They were, in a phrase, British rednecks. And this is who soccer fans are, everywhere in the world
– Robert Stacy McCain

“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

“Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.”
– Ron Atkinson

“He dribbles a lot and the opposition don’t like it – you can see it all over their faces.”
– Ron Atkinson

“They’ve picked their heads up off the ground and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.”
– Ron Atkinson

“We must have had 99 percent of the game. It was the other three percent that cost us the match.”
– Ruud Gullit

“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

“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

“It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.”
– Simon Kuper

“Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.”
– Simon Kuper

“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

“The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.”
– Terry Butcher

“[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

“The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.”
– Terry Pratchett

“I’ve never really liked the Yanks. … You can’t trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.”
– Terry Pratchett

“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

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

“Winning doesn’t really matter as long as you win.”
– Vinny Jones

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

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