Quotes About Soccer

Often in Spain you're winning 2-0, there are 15 minutes left, and it's as good as over. You control it, and the tempo drops. In England, that doesn't happen. They put another striker on, long balls into the area, free-kicks, corners. They push you back.

Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

Joining Real Madrid is a dream come true.

Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

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

Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20 000 people live there and 12 000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

You can't hold a conversation in Brazil without jokes . . . you knowhow Brazilians are. Brazilians are women, booze, soccer, carnival, and dirty jokes.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

I'd dreamt of playing professionally since I was 15, that's the route I took.

What's for sure is that the profile of the central defender is evolving. At one time it was all about the stopper and the libero. Today, central defenders have to be more complete.

I admire Arsenal very much, and part of that is that they are profitable.