Quotes About Soccer

I was a soccer player. Basketball wasn't my thing.

My favorite postgame treat as a kid was the sliced oranges. We had those when I played soccer, too, at halftime.

I believe that soccer in the United States lacks an idol and they should do everything possible to create one.

I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

I was born close to soccer, and I've been living and working in soccer since I was small.

I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.

I'm a big soccer fan. My favorite player is Ronaldo, but the real Ronaldo. The Ronaldo from Brazil.

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

Everyone throughout the soccer world knows the Cosmos name and the legacy of the players that played for this team previously. They helped establish soccer in America and I'm honored to follow in their footsteps.

To be honest I never watch a tennis match. I watch basketball a lot, soccer, never tennis.

Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball so much so it probably didn't help much with being a point guard.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

We came to a great country like Canada that took us in, which is amazing looking back at it. At that time, I didn't know if I wanted to play soccer or not. I didn't know what I was supposed to do with my life, but once I came to Canada and started watching it on TV, my dad and brother played and watching them play, I wanted to do that too.

I am really excited to be called into Canada Soccer's men's national team.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

I grew up loving Brazilian soccer. What made me think soccer was cool was these guys making soccer look like fun and easy, and they would just destroy people. It was an art. I loved that. And that's the way I learned the game and mimicked a style. It's just so beautiful.

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

I grew up in Rochester, New York, where we had the North American Soccer League. Rochester were at the time the worst team in the whole league, but week in week out I was there to support my team.

Basketball is such a global sport, being second to soccer.

I played soccer when I was younger so I thought I was going to be a soccer player for a long time. But then when I started modelling I finished up with soccer because it was too much.