Soccer Quotes

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.

It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.

The world is my lobster.

As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.

I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

When you're surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found