Soccer Quotes

The run of the ball is not in our court at the moment

If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

For me, it's important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it's got somebody's name on the back. That's kind of a cool thing.

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania

I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I went to my first college to play soccer.

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.

I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

My message to the fans would be that hopefully I can continue to perform as consistently as I have done this season and lift a trophy for them soon.

I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players

The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?

The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

There are people in my life who count more than playing soccer in Serie A

A game?’ Rob spluttered. ‘A bloody game?’ He turned to face his father. ‘This is your bloody fault! I’m living your bloody karma!

Two hours later, a noise resembling a hippo rolling along a corrugated iron roof shook Jane from her doze and Rob bursts through the living room door.