Quotes About Soccer

When I'm with friends, when I have time, I like to play soccer, and I think it's still my passion, still my love. I'm not crazy to do it every day, but sometimes when I see the ball, I like to kick the ball.

I had seen the ethos of rugby, and I was very much an admirer. For us, it's a beautiful sport, what I guess what Pele called soccer in Brazil. It's so simple; it's easy to understand. You can play five on five or 15 on 15.

It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

It was just a normal family. We were playing basketball, we were playing soccer. It was home-cooked meals, just peaceful and happy times.

I love the U.S.A. women's soccer team. I'm really a fan of them, how they play as a team, the spirit they have. They really motivate a lot of people.

My dad, he always played soccer.

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

When I went to Seattle, it was quite a quiet town and we made it the biggest soccer following in America. We didn't have the paparazzi, though, and I needed that at the time.

I don't like the soccer industry and yes, I do like to play.

Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.

I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don't think I'd have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.

I love soccer. That's my passion. That's what I make a living doing.

Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it's very important for the Mexican people. It's their passion - it's their religion - and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

For me, scoring goals is the most fun. That's why I love soccer so much.

I wanted to be a huge soccer player. I wanted to be the best in soccer when I grew up. But my life changed. Out of nowhere, I decided to be a fighter.

I think it will be good to be in Columbus and get pushed there and then go overseas. If there is a loan, it will be good to get comfortable and get games and get used to the pace of European soccer.

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

I did every sport and I played soccer in college.

My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn't like playing soccer that much.

The natural thing in Africa is to start playing soccer at 8 or 9. You go outside and you play like kids play basketball here, and you grow a feel for the game. In Africa, the kids start playing basketball at 16 or 17 or 18, and when they get an opportunity to come here, they have been playing for only one or two years.