Quotes About Soccer

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

I hope that everyone tries to help to increase the level of the MLS and also that American players like Pulisic are here and not in Europe. That should be the goal for America. I just try to help as much as I can.

Competing in the Premier League is more difficult than winning trophies in plenty of countries abroad.

I feel like soccer brings another dynamic to the city, it makes it more eclectic... I feel like it opens doors for people who grew up playing soccer here their whole life. We've got some rings on the way, trophies on the way, and we're gonna win, and we're gonna stand behind Atlanta United just like we stand behind everything else out of Atlanta.

It's all I've dreamt winning a trophy with Chelsea. To go all the way in the Champions League.

That's why I signed for Tottenham - to say to my two little boys, 'Look, on that day, Daddy won the trophy.'

Games don't come much bigger than playing the title holders with the chance to win the trophy yourselves.

I think I need another trophy on my list, and I know that Barca's ambition is to win the Champions League. This is my goal, too.

I would never have dreamed of being able to lift the Premier League trophy.

Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.

My dad was a soccer player. He didn't know anything about basketball - nothing.

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, 'Yeah bro, we always play 'Mo Bamba.'' It's crazy.

I was born in Canada, and then my dad played pro soccer in England and then also on an island off the coast of Portugal. So we lived there for, like, 10 years. And then we moved to Minnesota. So I feel like I've experienced a lot of different cultures, and I'm still figuring out who I am.

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.