Soccer Quotes: Inspiring the Passion and Dedication for the Beautiful Game
Soccer, also known as football, is a sport that captivates hearts and ignites a fervent passion around the world. It is a game of skill, teamwork, and unyielding determination. These quotes encapsulate the essence of soccer, celebrating its beauty, excitement, and the values it instills in players and fans alike.
The Thrill of the Game
Soccer is a thrilling and dynamic sport that keeps us on the edge of our seats. These quotes capture the excitement, intensity, and adrenaline rush experienced both on the field and in the stands. They remind us of the joy and exhilaration that comes with every goal scored, every save made, and every skill displayed. These quotes serve as a tribute to the heart-pounding moments that make soccer an unforgettable experience.
The Power of Teamwork
Soccer is a game that emphasizes teamwork, collaboration, and unity. These quotes highlight the importance of working together, trusting your teammates, and leveraging each other’s strengths. They remind us that success in soccer, as in life, is often achieved through collective effort, selflessness, and a shared goal. These quotes inspire us to embrace the power of teamwork and value the contributions of every individual on and off the field.
Perseverance and Dedication
Soccer is a sport that demands perseverance, discipline, and unwavering dedication. These quotes speak to the resilience and determination required to succeed in the game. They encourage players to never give up, to push through challenges, and to always strive for improvement. These quotes remind us that the journey in soccer, like in life, is filled with obstacles, but it is the unwavering commitment and persistence that lead to greatness.
The Beauty of the Beautiful Game
Soccer is often referred to as the “beautiful game” for its artistry, grace, and elegance. These quotes capture the beauty and poetry of soccer, celebrating its aesthetic appeal and the emotions it evokes. They remind us of the artistry in dribbling, the precision in passing, and the sheer joy of witnessing the game played with finesse. These quotes inspire us to appreciate the beauty of soccer, both in its technical brilliance and the emotions it stirs within us.
I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.
When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn’t the best track for me.
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
I think a lot of people thought women’s soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn’t realistic. It has progressed slowly.
The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I’m a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
I wasn’t good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
I loved playing every sport. Soccer, water polo, horses. Whatever. I just loved it – especially competing against my brothers.
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That’s their way.
My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.
One reason outfielders don’t have stronger arms might be they don’t practice as much as we did. Most teams today don’t take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics.
Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.
Colombia, Philippines, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Mexico, these are all powerhouse countries in pageants, and have very aggressive fans, this is like soccer to many in these countries.
I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.
Stanford’s an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.
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.
I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.
I love sports – I am a die-hard fan of soccer, and I am always at Maracana Stadium in Rio watching Flamengo play. I am also a big fan of basketball; I stay up at night to watch Lebron James play whenever I can.
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.
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent’s goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
Soccer runs in my blood.
You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, ‘No, you’re going to be normal, you’re going to go to school, you’re going to get good grades, you’re going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.’
After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn’t get much playing time, which forced me to determine who I was beyond the field, something I had previously never had to do.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don’t fight, we don’t get paid and that’s the scary reality to it all.
My teammates and I are best known for our penalty kick victory against China to win the 1999 Women’s World Cup. But a lot of people don’t realize that when we were first playing soccer on the Women’s National Team, the Women’s World Cup didn’t exist. In fact, Women’s Soccer wasn’t even in the Olympics.
When it was soccer time, it was soccer time.
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.
We started a new movement called street soccer, so I was already breathing and living the style. Since street soccer is not a game but a lifestyle, it required a matching wardrobe.
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don’t take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I’m sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
For the average person walking down the street, they don’t even know a women’s soccer league exists in this country.
I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.
When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don’t care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can’t manufacture that.
Quite frankly, I can’t get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there’s a reason why it is the world’s No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can’t be wrong.
I would love being the soccer mom.
I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.
Soccer isn’t very social. Plus, if you don’t like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.
Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.
When people say ‘American soccer,’ they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don’t believe we’ll ever get to where we want to be.
The thing that’s really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me – it’s not the best thing for a mother to tell you – but she’d never tell me after I’d lose a soccer game, ‘You’ll do better next time.’ She’d always say, ‘There’s always somebody better.’
Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly.
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
There was this old soccer game called ‘Goal’ for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I’ve played everything from the old school games to the 360.
All kids have the dream of becoming a professional soccer player, but to become that you need so many things. You have to have talent, be hard working, have support, have discipline. You also have to have ability, physical and technical, and understand the game.
My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That’s how I see football – fun and dynamic – and this goes beyond me; it’s a characteristic of Brazilian football.
Women’s tennis has been around for a very long time – we’re talking about the 1800s. But women’s soccer hasn’t had such a long history, so now they’re right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
I don’t like the soccer industry and yes, I do like to play.
People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they’re wrong.
If I couldn’t get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.
I think soccer kept me off the street.
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.
I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women’s soccer.
Inequality brings a visceral reaction. We fought many years to bring others to believe in what was possible with women’s soccer, in this country and globally. Now that the possible is being realized in this country, the American women should be compensated accordingly.
But for me as a player, I pride myself on understanding the game and having a really good soccer IQ.
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.
I’m not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
I’m not sure if I’m going to get into coaching. I’m sure I’ll stay in soccer somehow.
To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.
I’ve always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.
You always have to prove yourself. I always thought I had to go beyond things to get great grades. When I was applying for college, even though I knew I was going to play soccer, I always knew I had to do something above and beyond and not give anyone a reason not to overlook me.
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals’ ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
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.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect.
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.
I went to a soccer high school, and it was really different to being on ‘Idol.’ So I decided to quit school, and I put all my energy into music, and things started to happen.
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.
I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.
I don’t run on the treadmill, because there’s no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
I never thought I’d play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.
I can’t divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.
My dad has always played and coached, so that’s what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.
This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It’s part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.
Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.
Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
I’ve never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I’m not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren’t enough fields.
I liked soccer. I played it for two years.
Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It’s a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.
I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, ‘come on, try to choose a different sport.’
I never even think of playing soccer.
I didn’t make any money in soccer, only spent money. I had offers to play in Sao Paulo, but my mother didn’t let me go.
Fortunately for me, it’s my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don’t have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
If I’d grown up in Sao Paulo, I’m sure I would’ve been a great soccer fan.
Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don’t find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.
I think because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded, but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special. I’m thankful for that because it’s made me a better player.
I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
The one thing that I always encourage women who want to be WWE Divas to do is have something you are passionate about. For me it was Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts. For some people it’s soccer. Whatever it is, it gives you confidence and that will translate.
I think that during college, I would say I did not enjoy playing soccer.
The women’s national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity issues. Millions of young women play soccer in this country, and it’s empowering for them to see that our contribution to the game is valued.
Basketball is such a global sport, being second to soccer.
The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don’t realize it’s very one-on-one a lot of times.
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.
It’s definitely one of my biggest passions – I played every day after school with all my friends from high school in Pennsylvania. They weren’t really soccer players, so we would play basketball all the time.
Until they study the general population and find out what the likelihood of CTE in a soccer mom is versus an NFL brain, we really have no baseline to rate this study off of.
Everyone throughout the soccer world knows the Cosmos name and the legacy of the players that played for this team previously. They helped establish soccer in America and I’m honored to follow in their footsteps.
When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids’ lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation… life.
I believe that soccer in the United States lacks an idol and they should do everything possible to create one.
Argentina is a powerhouse in soccer.
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
For me, soccer was a dance.
A lot of young women play soccer, and it’s wonderful to give them something to aspire to.
I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises – something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it’s just going faster than it should.
I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.
If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it’s all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.
I’ve used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team – to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.
We want the N.W.S.L. to grow. It is growing; it’s continuously growing every year. We want it to be sustainable. It’s separate in the sense that this is a U.S. Soccer thing, but the idea is to grow soccer in general, and we want to do that any way we can.
We are glad not only to bring a professional soccer team to Miami but also to support all of its communities through our social responsibility commitment.
If your child’s going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn’t do any of those things, then they’re probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too.
I did improv classes just like any kid would do soccer or gymnastics or swimming. At one of my showcases, my manager came to my mom and said, ‘We would like to represent your daughter.’ My mom asked me that night if I would like to actually act, and I said, ‘Why not? I’ll give it a try!’
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.
I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
Play is under attack in our nation’s schools – and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they’re in soccer and choral events.
Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
I like to play soccer and paintball. I love paintball.
I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don’t think I’d have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.
Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It’s like baseball, basketball and football in America. If you’re talented, people will find you. That’s what happened with soccer. The number of academies has grown rapidly, and people are really into it.
A game of soccer is popular because its rules don’t change often.
If I can inspire kids to do what I do – want to become professional soccer players – then I think that that’s everything I want to do.
The demographics of this country are changing. And the people coming to this country are soccer fans, not hockey fans.
I want to know I made women’s soccer better than it was when I came into it.
I’m a big soccer fan. My favorite player is Ronaldo, but the real Ronaldo. The Ronaldo from Brazil.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.
World Soccer Stars presents a great opportunity to celebrate the arrival of football, and from what I know, football is the next emerging sport in Pakistan.
I love soccer and I’ve always been a fan of players who stay with their teams for a long time.
Children need to move to develop their brain; it’s a natural urge. That’s why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can’t help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that’s uniquely their own.
If I didn’t have quads and hamstrings, soccer would be a lot different for me than it is now. I would be pushed all over the field. My lower body is something that has made me the player I am today, and it makes me feel strong.
Hockey is no longer a big four. It’s football, basketball, baseball and soccer. Now, I’m not talking MLS. I’m talking COPA, World Cup, men’s, women’s, MLS, youth… and there’s a lot of reasons for it.
Soccer is a magical game.
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.
In 2005, I would have never guessed that I was at risk for a pulmonary embolism. I was 21 years-old, playing college soccer and just living the dream.
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
I absolutely loved my time at Uconn. It was my first time really being away from home, having to make decisions for myself, make decisions for what’s best for my soccer, for my school, nutrition.
For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling.
I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.
If you go to school you can meet friends and you can play soccer, you know?
Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That’s what we do at halftime.
I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
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.
Move with them, be active with them – whether it’s swimming or scooting or bicycling or playing soccer. Engage your child.
When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I’d be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I’d, like, miss the ball going past me.
I thought I was going to play soccer in college.
I wasn’t a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.
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.
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
Soccer is taken extremely seriously in Turkey.
I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I’ll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch.
Because our father played professional soccer, being in the spotlight never felt weird to me and my brother. We always felt we could do anything.
Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It’s a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.
I played soccer when I was younger so I thought I was going to be a soccer player for a long time. But then when I started modelling I finished up with soccer because it was too much.
I could have played soccer if I wanted.
If you’re a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I’m watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
I’m not scared of any other player, but I normally know the quality of the others and try to be ready before the game. But I don’t forget my own style to play soccer.
If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I’ve had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.
I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it’s a soccer match with friends or golf.
In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
I play over-35s soccer on the weekend to get my fix of running into people and crashing and bashing, and I still have that desire to win in the sport that I play. I don’t think that’ll ever lose me.
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.
The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.
Our people love soccer more than they do in Brazil.
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water – no tap water, and no electricity – and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.
I’ve had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it’s a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.
As a soccer player, that’s the greatest dream, to win a World Cup.
Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, ‘I’m a Madrid fan until death.’
Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.
I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it’s very important for the Mexican people. It’s their passion – it’s their religion – and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.
I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master.
I did every sport and I played soccer in college.
U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.
You can’t die from going to the stadium to see a soccer match.
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.
My dad has been to every soccer game that I’ve played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.
What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?
Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ and the college kid who grew up on ‘Ninja Rap’ to the soccer mom and grandparent.
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it’s part of who I am.
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.
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
I was in my junior year of high school and I had been playing soccer and basketball almost my entire life, and I wanted a change of pace. I wanted to do something more, something different. That’s when I found an MMA gym about 45 minutes from my house and fell in love with the idea of becoming a professional fighter.
I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn’t continue to excel in those categories.
I’m from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.
Being able to play sports in a school or public environment was everything for me – basketball, soccer, track.
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.
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi – but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I’m doomed to be a writer.
Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they’re trying to promote it. At the end of the day it’s about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer’s always my priority.
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
When I was pitching ‘Hooligans,’ with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don’t want to see a picture about soccer thugs.
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
I feel like I have big thighs. My brother was always like, ‘Yeah, I want big thighs! Big thighs are awesome!’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, for a man!’ But I’ve trained since I was 6 years old to play soccer, and this is just the type of body I have.
I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I’m not a big soccer fan, but watching a live game is unbelievable. And then I went to Italy and saw a soccer match; it’s something everyone should do once. It’ll blow your mind.
I don’t think I’ll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.
I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
My dad was a football player – a soccer player – for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
We play a game called, ‘Peru ball,’ it’s a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with a football and one team’s going one direction, the other team’s going the other direction. Get the ball across the line, the length of a soccer goal. That’s it, that’s the only rules.
I’m not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.
Soccer players in L.A. can kind of just walk the streets. They have bigger people to take pictures of. They see Sylvester Stallone walking down the street, I don’t think they are going to want an Ashley Cole picture, to be honest.
In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton – two sports every season – and I was named female athlete of the year twice.
I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together – all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.
I’m an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I’m always thinking about how to balance my meals.
I played street soccer; that’s where I started. If you look at South America, that’s why they have technical players.
It’s important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision – if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.
I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That’s what he did with me when I was 15.
I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.
What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.
A lot of leftists think it is soccer’s fault that people don’t think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.
No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
I used to be so focused on winning, I had a really hard time enjoying soccer. If I missed a shot, I would spend a lot of time thinking about how I’d disappointed my teammates. Then I learned how moments of struggle make you stronger.
When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on ‘The Biggest Loser,’ I realized I just wanted to be healthy – to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.
I always had a soccer ball with me. I could never stop. As young as I can remember, my dad was always throwing a soccer ball at me.
When I was a kid, I mix watching soccer and the U.S. Open, that’s it.
It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.
I don’t know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
Everybody loves tennis or soccer there. That’s another reason for these unbelievable tennis players from Tandil.
I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself – I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.
I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.
I have my own brand called Monta, including a specially designed street soccer ball made out of a denim material which fades like your old jeans when used.
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.
I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.
I realized I couldn’t raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.
I was a soccer player. Basketball wasn’t my thing.
To play a soccer game, you have to be in very good shape.
I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.
When you talk about Mexican culture, it’s wrestling and soccer.
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it’s a gender-free sport in high school there.
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
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.
When my daughter Dixie gets out of school, I take her to ballet, soccer, or karate. Or if it’s a free afternoon, we might bake together. I love our time together. There is nothing more important in my life than making her happy.
Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn’t know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn’t play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn’t get into math Olympiad.
Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I’ve got a hell of a lot of competition.
I played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don’t remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard – I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.
I really like my legs because I’ve worked hard for them. With soccer, that’s the one thing you’re working all the time.
I definitely play soccer every week and try to keep life as normal as I can.
I love soccer.
Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network’s schedule.
I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.
During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me ‘Touch’ because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.
I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women’s team.
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
You know me, I’m not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn’t matter.
Soccer is my first love. I’ve been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.
I’ve never met anybody who says they don’t like the World Cup. If you’re a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance – this peak of ecstasy.
When I’m with friends, when I have time, I like to play soccer, and I think it’s still my passion, still my love. I’m not crazy to do it every day, but sometimes when I see the ball, I like to kick the ball.
You know a dog loves you for who you are; they don’t know if you’re a soccer player or not. Sometimes people treat you good because you’re a footballer or because you’re famous, but a dog doesn’t know it.
My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They’re doing their thing and on the weekends, and I’m on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That’s why, when we see each other, it’s really, really kind of special.
I’m a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I’ve met a lot of big stars – Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble – and I don’t ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
I grew up playing soccer and it’s definitely my first love.
My dad is actually from Ghana in West Africa, and I was actually born in Ghana, too, and came to the United States when I was two years old. It’s always football over there, soccer, but becoming a Massachusetts native, you can’t help but get sucked into all the sports.
Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.
Honestly, I’m not a soccer fan. I’m not a golf fan.
I’m a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.
That’s soccer. There are good games and others that aren’t so much.
The natural thing in Africa is to start playing soccer at 8 or 9. You go outside and you play like kids play basketball here, and you grow a feel for the game. In Africa, the kids start playing basketball at 16 or 17 or 18, and when they get an opportunity to come here, they have been playing for only one or two years.
I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
I have been playing soccer since I was about four years old. You always hope you can reach the top of the profession, that you can play in the big leagues and achieve all of the goals you hope to accomplish throughout your life.
You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I’ve been doing are based on different people I might’ve had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
Some boys accepted me, some didn’t. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: ‘What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?’
I grew up playing baseball, playing soccer, having a paper route, while running my own small lawn mowing and snow shovelling businesses as a kid.
I think if you’re writing about cricket, you’re obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.
Pro wrestling is a different animal than pro football and pro soccer. There is going to be a lot of money going out before the bulk of the money can come back in.
I used to play soccer when I was little, but everybody played soccer when they were little.
At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness – your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.
Let me tell you about ‘Mad Dog’ Madsen. He was like the Soccer Dad of the Stanford Men’s Basketball Team.
I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.
I didn’t know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women’s team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.
I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.
I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.
What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players – the way they have to make a play out of nothing.
I thought that basketball and soccer were hard. And then I went to track practice. It’s just running and running and running. And my event was the 400 hurdles. I ended up qualifying for state. But looking back on it, track was hard.
I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.
When I am working, I know this is my work so I can be focused for three hours, four hours, or whatever, and then outside I am a person like you or the children playing soccer in the street.
People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.
As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
I have more of a soccer dad. He was always the one taking us to sports practice.
I’m enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women’s Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.
They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I’d nominate squash.
I want a brood, you know. I’d like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
I always encourage youngsters in America to play soccer.
As a former college athlete, I know the importance of sports in the lives of women and girls, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to join forces with NWSL and U.S. Soccer to ensure professional women athletes are elevated as the entire country can watch and be inspired by their strength and athleticism.
I’m a runner from sports. I’ve been a runner, but I wasn’t a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It’s in my blood.
In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.
Soccer fans spend almost as much time outdoors as we do! Whether you’re heading out onto the field for practice or cheering from the sidelines, throw a broad spectrum sunscreen into your bag to help protect your skin from the sun.
All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.
In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.
One of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s points is that it’s an honour and a privilege to to play for this country, and it is. But we also represent the entire country, and the idea of liberty and justice isn’t afforded to everyone.
Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.
I’m a little embarrassed to say I’m a little bit of a soccer dad.
I didn’t really think I was really good, I was just playing the game because I enjoyed playing it with my friends. Then once I started playing organized soccer, parents, coaches and other teammates were telling me to keep going and that I could become something so I started believing it.
Any time I’m at a bar, I’m hoping somebody asks me about the offside rule. Give me four bottles of beer and one bottle of ketchup and I’m going to explain this to you so well because I love explaining soccer.
I actually got my start playing indoor soccer with the boys, a bunch of boys I played with. We eventually became a club team and then essentially got to the point where I couldn’t be a girl on the boys’ team, so I switched over to JB Marine.
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
I still believe it is important that children have a chance to play other sports because they all offer learning experiences. Soccer is a growing sport and would be a good complement to hockey.
Just looking back at what my family did for me, and where I came from, from nothing in Ghana… and my mom allowing me to come play soccer, keeping myself motivated is a little bit easier than usual.
I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.
I’m a championship handball player. I’m a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I’m really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I’m cleaning the house or making dinner.
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.
I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them… whether that’s in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we’re kind of more alike than we are different.
I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.
I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
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.
My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.
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.
I wanted to be a soccer player.
Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals – I didn’t pass the ball so much so it probably didn’t help much with being a point guard.
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.
I think every American boy should play soccer till the eighth grade. Then they should play football. American football.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.
Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.
That’s what pushes me every day to want to be successful on the soccer field – being able to not only take care of my kid on a financial level and be stable but, most importantly, to inspire my child.
Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.
I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I’d miss it too much if I wasn’t involved.
I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.
I don’t think people have ever really been in touch with science. They’re drawn to it, but they don’t know why they’re drawn to it. For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes.
Girls can be funny and play sports and show how to do the perfect soccer kick if they want.
Soccer is always changing and evolving, and I think our national team has had to change with the times.
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.
People told me I was more of a soccer player, not a football player.
I’m very, very focused on my children. In fact, I’m very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don’t work. So as long as I’m not traveling, I’m always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn’t like playing soccer that much.
Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women’s game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.
I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.
While I’m more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
I played soccer until I was like 10 or 11, maybe 12. I had fun with it, but it was a team sport, and I hated losing, and we kept losing, so I quit.
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn’t happen.
I’ve been going to soccer games since I was a kid. For me, soccer brought people together. You didn’t need money to do it. You needed one ball and your friends. That’s what’s so amazing about the game and why it’s so global.
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.
I played soccer my whole life. I’m kind of a heavier person, and whenever you kick and punt, no matter how limited an activity it is, my brain and shoulders are going to be OK because I didn’t play a tough guy position, but my knees took a lot of wear and tear from the kicking.
Soccer’s not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
I don’t just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You’re going to look back 20 years from now and of course you’re going to remember the games. But I’m going to remember seeing my family in the stands.
I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn’t want a child-star model, so I didn’t get into modeling until I was 14.
When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn’t work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.
Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I had some pretty wild contract demands. ‘I’ll only play if you’re my coach.’ So my mom went to the library and brought home a bunch of books on how to coach soccer, and that was it. She was my first manager.
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.
Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You’re running; you’re getting tackled.
My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.
As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do – and I wasn’t very good at that.
I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn’t need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.
Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I’ll tell you what – it’s not. It’s rough as guts. It’s great.
I think it’s important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer… it isn’t talent.
My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.
I’m being told I’ve become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that’s just awesome.
In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it’s so cool, and I’ve grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.
I used to go to my kids’ soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn’t screaming, because I’d have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
I want to win every game – soccer, tennis, it doesn’t matter. When I play I am very loud. I am very emotional.
Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.
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.
My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there’s no greater honor.
I don’t watch shows. I watch a lot of sports. Not soccer. I hate soccer.
Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.
Find a type of exercise that you love – whether it’s dance, soccer, softball, anything – just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you’ll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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.
I’m a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that’s because I didn’t do that. If I’d focused more on that when I was a kid, it would’ve been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.
I am hugely honored to represent my country in the Olympics and in World Cups, and I’m grateful for all the advantages being a professional soccer player brings my way – the opportunities to see the world, the camaraderie and friendships, and more.
I love all sports! I’m always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn’t my calling.
If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We’re there. We’ve always been.
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
In training when I’m receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it’s just soccer.
I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can’t have both.
I’ve played soccer since I was five.
I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn’t get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront – he didn’t get that.
I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I’m from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.
I don’t think I am a great. I think I’ve done nothing. I’ve done nothing in soccer. I’ve won leagues, but I haven’t won the Champions League, the World Cup, the Euro. Winning the Euro in France, that wouldn’t be bad.
I tried everything from basketball to volleyball to soccer, but dancing was the only thing I never complained about.
I’ve always wanted to become a professional soccer player.
Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
Everything in my life – family, friends, even my fiance – are all second to soccer. And I’ve won every tournament where I haven’t had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don’t think I’m going to change that.
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.
Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.
I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.
I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it’s just going to keep getting bigger.
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.
I’ve been dealing with the Special Olympics since I was young. On Sundays I used to go help monitor little soccer practices.
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys… Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house… and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.
I was studying sociology in college and I was a big soccer player. That’s something not a lot of people know about me. I’m a girly girl, but I’m also a secret tomboy.
I played English football – soccer – instead of American football, because we couldn’t afford the equipment.
I played soccer when I was little, but I wasn’t very good at it.
In any professional level competition, soccer players, you’ve got to know when to stop.
I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.
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.
I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.
I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I’m a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little bit of soccer.
Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that’s all I can do. It’s the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it’s called the free market. That’s how most people’s salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.
Soccer, more often than not, helps to unite the world. What this Muslim ban is doing is dividing it: separating ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ to another degree, adding more division to a country that already struggles with race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender.
When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.
After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.
When people ask me what club I supported growing up, I didn’t really watch club soccer. The only channels I got had World Cups and the Copa America, so I gravitated toward the Latin American, South American style of game.
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.
Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.
May these soccer quotes reignite your passion for the beautiful game and remind you of the values it embodies. Let them inspire you to embrace the thrill, power of teamwork, perseverance, and the sheer beauty of soccer. Whether you’re a player or a fan, may these quotes remind you why soccer holds a special place in our hearts and continues to captivate us with its magic.
