Quotes About Soccer

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

I might have a different understanding of the term 'football star.' If I shoot a few balls after training, it's perfectly normal that I collect them afterwards.

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.

My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.

The first games were against Belgium and Switzerland, and that changed me as well because I used to play striker at Hull, and when I went away with Wales, I played as a winger.

It's always been something I've wanted to try and do, to take Wales to a major championship.

To see Liverpool win the Premier League would be fantastic being a Liverpool fan. But to get to the Euros with Wales would be just as special.

I knew I wanted to play for Wales from an early age.

Playing for Wales or making my debut for Liverpool, it was excitement, a feeling of freedom even.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

My dream is to play in the MLS maybe, because I love the lifestyle in America. Doesn't matter - New York, L.A. - I want the big city.

Before I came to Tottenham, I was a big fan of Luka Modric.

Lots of times I have to leave the goal to block a ball.

Nobody wants to lose to bloody Rochdale.

This is my boyhood dream to play for England.

Bravo, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, and Jordi Masip are three goalkeepers of the highest quality.

Playing for Brazil is a huge pleasure. I think it's a huge pride.

Brazil is the land of football. They have a lot of passion.

My dream was always to play for Brazil.

Brazil is a fantastic football country.

If you lose a game in Brazil, you cannot walk about among the fans.

I have been watching Brazil since I was a little kid.

The best players in the world play in Europe so that's where you want to go when you play in Brazil.