Soccer Quotes

There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten better over time, the English and Italians developed the tradition of making ape noises when black players touched the ball. The Poles toss bananas on the field. This consistency owes nothing to television, which rarely shows these finer points of fan behavior. Nor are these insults considered polite to discuss in public. This trope has simply become a continent-wide folk tradition, transmitted via the stadium, from fan to fan, from father to son.

~ Franklin Foer

Football is the poetry of a motion.

~ Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

~ Anthony Liccione

Okay, on my first night, he tried to chat me up. You know how the story goes. ‘You have the most beautiful eyes, I’m very rich, want to see my bedroom?’ Blah, blah, blah.”“And because you turned him down, he’s more determined than ever,” Will guessed, with amazing accuracy. “You did turn him down, right?”“Of course,” I told him, insulted by the insinuation I would drop my knickers for a glass of wine. “Do you think I’d risk my job for a quick tumble in the sheets with him?

~ Kyra Lennon

AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

~ David Bennun

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

~ Terry Pratchett

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

~ Simon Kuper

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

~ Simon Kuper

Football is all about sentiment, if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United.

~ Mark O'brien

To be a professional you have to act like one as well..

~ Alcurtis Turner

A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.

~ Marcelo Bielsa

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

~ Tite Kubo

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

~ Mia Hamm

I still remember what my father said There are on the stadium 22 idiots, which are running after ball.. From where did he knew that??He knew it from guarding the stadium, so my question is why we don't watch how a dog catch a ball?But we watch 22 idiots running after the ball??What are the differences??That the dog can't kick the ball, but the humanity can?? - Wow, wow that's a great discovery for a dumb person!

~ Deyth Banger

In three weeks, the women's team had done more for soccer in the United States than any team had ever done. Yet, the United States Soccer Federation was unprepared and unwelcoming in its acerbic response to the women's success. With petty, resentful, chauvinistic behavior, the federation would bungle what should have been its greatest moment as a national governing body. Its leaders would criticize DiCicco instead of congratulating him, they would threaten to sue the women over an indoor victory tour and they would wait an unacceptably long period before entering into contract negotiations with the team. Then, at the end of the year, the federation would offer a deal that the women found insulting. Unwilling to trust that the federation was bargaining in good faith, the women would boycott a trip to a tournament in Australia. They would become champions of the world, embraced by the president, by the largest crowd ever to watch women play and by the largest television audience for soccer in this country, embraced by everyone, it seemed, but the officials who ran the sport with the vision of a student council. Increasingly, it appeared, the only amateurs left in sports were the people running the federations that governed them.

~ Jere Longman

Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.

~ P.j. Davitt

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.

~ Alex Morgan

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.

~ Eduardo Galeano

I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.

~ Genevieve Padalecki

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.

~ Landon Donovan

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.

~ Kendall Jenner

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.

~ Michael Keaton

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

~ George Vecsey

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

~ Gabrielle Union

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.

~ Scott Bakula

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.

~ Troy Polamalu

I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

~ Rabih Alameddine

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

~ Dave Checketts

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.

~ Olly Murs

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.

~ Danny Mcbride

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.

~ Alex Morgan

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

~ Bill Shankly

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

~ Ronaldinho

I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.

~ Martin Winterkorn

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

~ Bill Simmons

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

~ Drew Carey

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

~ Eduardo Galeano

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

~ Gary Allan

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.

~ Vanilla Ice

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

~ Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo