Quotes About Competition

Someone asked me 'What's the biggest thing you'll take out of the Premier League?' I said that you can't relax. I think you can go from having a great run of games - you can go four, five, six unbeaten - and turn a corner and go into a run of seven or eight games without winning. That's how difficult it is for the so-called smaller clubs.

You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Life is a soccer field, don't you think?

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

I want to win every game - soccer, tennis, it doesn't matter. When I play I am very loud. I am very emotional.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

I grew up playing soccer and it's definitely my first love.

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

I like to play soccer and paintball. I love paintball.

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.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

I've played soccer since I was five.

I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.

What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.

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.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.

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.