Quotes About Soccer

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts. Football is a beastly game played by beasts.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

A video referee is useful for sure.

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

Just looking back at what my family did for me, and where I came from, from nothing in Ghana... and my mom allowing me to come play soccer, keeping myself motivated is a little bit easier than usual.

I've got the utmost respect for Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham.

Lee Chung-yong has been playing well and trying hard at Bolton and has grown in confidence. His improvement is valuable for the national team.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

I think growing up in England strikers are hungry to just get goals. We have a mean streak in us. We like to get goals.

The experience I have is invaluable and being able to share my confidence and knowledge of the game is one of my biggest strengths.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.

Everybody knows what Peter Crouch's strengths are and when he plays he is a handful for any side.

I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.

It's difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He's very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.

I would love to win the Premier League because it's the strongest league in the world.

I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

I started playing in goal because I 'struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10 years old.