Soccer Quotations | Page 4

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it'.

We want everyone to feel welcome and become part of professional soccer in Houston.

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color,

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

You were only a goalkeeper.

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

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.

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.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

What went on last year I don't think weighs as much on the players as it might on the fans. Frankly, even on the soccer side, this is an important game for us in terms of getting some points, playing well at home in front of our fans and continue this thing so people feel it's definitely different than last year.

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

We're playing better soccer as the year goes on. We had some classic goals where you switch directions, and the keeper can't be two places at once.

We're a changing country. The people against us are older and not engaged in the game. Our focus remains expanding the dominance of soccer as the No. 1 sport among Hispanics living in the U.S.

Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge.

Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

In a year's time, he's a year older.

The margin is very marginal.

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

We're looking forward to making a life here in Houston, and making soccer a success here.

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.

When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.

We've taken a first step towards helping Portugal to move forward not only in soccer but also to achieve things in other areas of life.

We've said it all along that we think St. Louis is a great market for a Major League Soccer team. The good news is we have a number of individuals that have come to us in recent months with interest in the St. Louis area and looked at feasibility studies and potential sites and have come to meet with us.

Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

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.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

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.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

We're looking at players. Players have to decide if pro soccer is in their future.

We're excited to be able to help raise awareness for the Soccer United Recovery Fund; the fact that the Charleston Battery is located in a city and in a part of the country that has seen its share of hurricanes over the years helps us appreciate the dangers and the severity of these storms. We're glad to help out in any way we can.

We're excited to add the Kats to our client roster. Just as with our male and female high school athletes, NFL players, professional soccer players and elite amateur athletes, our goal will be to increase the Kats' speed, power and agility and reduce risk of injury to help them win football games.

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Last year, we were 11 freshmen just trying to get by. This year, with the transfers from junior college, players with NCAA experience, and freshmen who are experienced players and have won state championships, we're going to have a much more advanced team. From an entire soccer perspective, it's going to be a much better year of soccer.

Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa are the heroes in their community.

Many people say Im the best womens soccer player in the world. I dont think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

Sebastian is a very attractive player. He has a huge pedigree in soccer and he has a strong desire to play in the States. He has the potential to be an impact player in this league.

She was a great leader, a great soccer player. The strength of the team is the team, not the individuals. She was somebody we looked toward to make things happen. And her personality was even stronger than her soccer ability.

She's a pioneer of women's soccer and of girl's soccer. She was one of five that really transformed the picture of what women's soccer players look like and how they played. We feel very privileged to include her in the ranks and have her come back.

She's one of the players I could always count on. She understands what it means to play soccer in this program. She appreciated the opportunity.

Sexuality is like any other activity. There are people for whom skydiving, chocolate cake and soccer are their world. But some people don't like skydiving, chocolate cake or soccer. There's no reason to focus your energy and attention on something you feel no reason to do anything about.

Oliver Kahn will be in the ad because he belongs to the best soccer players in the world.

She (Gerry) has made the single most improvement. She will be the focus of our attack this year. In girls soccer it's hard to find a goal scorer. She has that mindset. She brings a good level of toughness to our team.

Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.

She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she can tolerate. She has a child who doesn't have an identity, and she wants to make her life cleaner and wants her son to be able to live a normal life.

Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as field positioning is very similar. The only difference is that you're hitting the ball with a stick instead of your foot.

Max will be a strong addition for our team this coming fall. He is a strong student and comes from a great soccer family. I look for him to make a significant contribution to our team as a freshman and to have a great career as a Bulldog.

Of all the years we've played HF-L, this is the first time that we've controlled the game. Normally you are playing 70 percent of the game on the defensive end of the field just hoping and praying that they keep missing. Today we controlled it and had the better play. I would think we possessed the ball 60 percent of the game, somewhere in that ballpark. The kids have worked hard and they have the ability. Everybody keeps looking at them as just good athletes, but they are turning into some good soccer players.

Now we have to head back to camp to touch up the mistakes we made today. Overall, we looked good. The soccer is there, we just need to finish all our chances.

Numbers have been an issue for a number of years. We have very large enrollments in boys' soccer and boys' cross country. And there are only 12 to 14 players in our top level of Pop Warner (youth football). There are not a lot of football players in our community.

Phil said he was happier than he's ever been about his soccer investment.

Nobody likes to lose, but the kids have been working hard and nobody's hanging their head. We have a lot of kids who also play baseball, basketball, and hockey, so soccer isn't their first sport. We don't have the best skills, but we play with a lot of hustle and determination.

Nike soccer represents one of our top three businesses today, an incredible achievement from where we started in 1994. We have great momentum. In the past four years, we have more than doubled Nike's soccer business worldwide, and we have established brand leadership in the hearts and minds of consumers. We are confident that Nike product innovation and our connection to players and consumers will continue to drive significant growth.

Nicole is one of the best Wyoming kids to come out of the state in a while and we are thrilled that she is staying home. She has a very high level of commitment to the game of soccer and has gone out and gotten a lot of experience by playing on different club teams in Utah. She is very solid technically, has great speed and is very athletic.

One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think.