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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
Sep 10, 2025
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi
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.
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.
There's no honor in soccer
One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.
If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.
The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!
I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
For me, he is an exceptional player.
I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.
Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."
I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.
The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.
The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.
Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.
They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat
A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.
The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.
The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.
Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.
In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.
He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.
This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.
His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)
I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.
If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.
Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.
A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!
A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.
Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.
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.
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.
We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.
Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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.
Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?
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.
And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them
If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.