Quotes About Soccer

One of the best moments was playing for this small team in Brazil called Uniao Sao Joao - the first match was the best, the most interesting, I loved it.

The first goal I scored for Brazil will live with me forever.

I always had the dream to play for Brazil, and that dream has come true already.

The pressure to win is always there, especially with the Brazilian team.

To wear the number 10 for your country is a very special thing. This was not only my dream, but the dream of every single Brazilian.

It's always nice to be in England. It's the kind of football I love to play. Even playing at Stamford Bridge, it's amazing.

To be called up to England, to play at Old Trafford and then to come and play at the Bridge, there's so much experience I can take away.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

I already watched Barcelona as a kid, and then, when I was a bit more aware of the game, you had the Guardiola era with all their successes. That turned me into an even bigger fan.

I enjoyed my biggest successes with the national team.

You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

I have always wanted to play in the Premier League because I am a fast, strong player, and I think it will suit me.

The game In England could be suitable for me but I like Italy.

The Spanish league is my favourite. The attacking mentality suits my style.

As kids we'd be forever shooting at dad and I started as a striker, but I eventually became a pivote, the position I like most and best suits my characteristics.

My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.

I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.

Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, joggers, and bicyclists, come between us. I followed her past a field where girls were playing soccer, and into the woods bordering Catamount Creek. The smell of pine needles underfoot was sharp, pungent. I seemed to know that I would always associate that smell with this afternoon, and with Dorcas.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

There's only two teams in Manchester. City and City reserves!" How right he was!

Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as I leave a trail of dots and loops behind me.

It's essential to be able to communicate in English, to talk to my team-mates and then in my personal life outside the football.

Such great goalkeepers have played in England over the years - the likes of Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, and Bert Trautmann.