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.
