Quotes About Competition

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.

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.

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.

A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.

The first time I won a medal in the all-around competition is when I realized that's what I wanted to do pretty much for the rest of my life. Even though I was still doing baseball and soccer at the time, I think I just found that that was more my passion, where I saw a lot more success... I was probably eight or nine years old.

That's soccer. There are good games and others that aren't so much.

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.

I only try to play good soccer.

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 think that soccer is one thing, and money is another thing.

My dad, he always played soccer.

I never even think of playing soccer.

I don't like the soccer industry and yes, I do like to play.

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.

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

For me, scoring goals is the most fun. That's why I love soccer so much.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

I did every sport and I played soccer in college.

Everything can happen in soccer. We have seen inexplicable things.