Quotes About Soccer

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

'Elusive' is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

When you say the word 'Neymar' around the world, everyone knows who he is and what he does.

For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

How many times do you get to play in Portland in front of how many thousands of people? That's the kind of environment we want to be in.

Benteke is a threat when he's fit, fully motivated and firing on all cylinders.

It's not my style of play to mark players and stop them, or be threatening. But I am learning that at Chelsea.

Since I was in the youth team I would love to dribble past opponents with a dummy. That tendency got even stronger under Giampiero Ventura at Bari, as we never threw the ball away.

It was a huge thrill to win the Confederations Cup.

We were thrilled to reach France in 1998 but our failure to make the finals in the U.S.A. in 1994 and South Korea and Japan in 2002 has left a bitter taste.

I always had a soccer ball with me. I could never stop. As young as I can remember, my dad was always throwing a soccer ball at me.

When I was pitching 'Hooligans,' with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don't want to see a picture about soccer thugs.

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

The press would've guillotined her on the spot and played soccer with her severed head.

Playing at Wembley will be the realization of a dream.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo, who has won two Ballons d'Or with Real Madrid, receives whistles from the Bernabeu.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That's one of the most important things for a midfielder.