Quotes About Soccer

I enjoy playing at Manchester City.

I used to watch Manchester United a lot when David Beckham was there, but not any more now he's gone.

I'd love to take a shot at getting one over on Manchester United. I love the team. I love the game. I love when I get to go to Old Trafford and watch them do their thing. The whole organization takes itself very, very seriously though. They could use a little lightening up.

In Argentina, everyone knows Manchester United, but the only ones who've heard of Fiorentina are people who follow me.

I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.

If I was 19, 20, 18, and I had the chance to play with first-team players of Manchester United, I will definitely try to take my chance.

Winning the FA Cup with Manchester United was my biggest achievement.

I believe in Manchester United.

Manchester United is a huge club. When I was young, it was a name I used to hear and it was a name I used to see on computer games and I used to play with the team.

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

He even wrote a ballet about soccer, in which crooked capitalist soccer players face off against clean-living Soviets who perform startling slowmotion gymnastics.

Soccer' is not an Americanism. It's short for 'Association Football' and was popularised by Charles Wreford-Brown, captain of the English national team 1894–5.

When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.

Shkodran Mustafi is a great choice, he's a great defender with lots of experience. He played with the German national team so we know his quality.

Keeper had shifted the limits of my world, or maybe simply rubbed them out. Now, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, he was preparing to take a free kick at me. It

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

I hear Glenn Hoddle has found God. That must have been one hell of a pass.

Leisure time Children in Italy enjoy similar pastimes to young people from elsewhere in Europe. There are many television channels to watch, and pop music and comic strips also are popular. Watching soccer is a national passion, for both men and women. Young boys, such as these from Turin, are often seen in the parks and alleys, practicing their skills.