Quotes About Soccer

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

Until they study the general population and find out what the likelihood of CTE in a soccer mom is versus an NFL brain, we really have no baseline to rate this study off of.

At the end of the day it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

I have improved both feet for my passing game as well as in the vertical play into attack, whether that be low balls or longer balls.

It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.

Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Real Madrid are favourites in every championship and in every game, but we will stay humble in order to earn a victory.

I have improved in my mentality. I didn't know what it meant to play at Juventus when I arrived, as there is pressure and obsession for the victory.

Obviously, I wasn't born when Pele was playing at World Cups, but I have watched plenty of videos, both of him and other great players.

When I was a kid, I watched Hugo Sanchez videos. The backflip I sometimes do when I score is actually an homage to him.

I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.

Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.

That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.

It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

Asian football is the future of football.

I always go into a game trying to get an assist and trying to get a goal, I want to influence games.

With Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the best player in the world, Juventus are the best team in Europe or at least one of the best teams.

When I was a child, my dream was to play for Atletico.

I love playing there... I like Atletico.

When I was 10 I started playing for Atletico Mineiro and that was the start of my professional career.