Quotes About Sports

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

Honestly, I'm not a soccer fan. I'm not a golf fan.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

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.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

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

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.

I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches would make deals with me so I'd do it. It's a tough position as a kid.

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

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.

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

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

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

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

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I'll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch.

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.

My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

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