Soccer Player Quotes

Soccer Player Quote of the day

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

My heroes were always soccer players.

You were only a goalkeeper.

I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

Is he ever going to learn?

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.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

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

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

Really, off days for soccer players are just recovery days. You're trying to get off your feet as much as possible.

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.

David James is a cretin.

I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.