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. — Serge Schmemann
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats. — Alex Morgan
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay. — Ann Coulter
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set — Jimmy Cannon
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. — Gary Lineker
Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation. — Landon Donovan
Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing. — Ray Hudson
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life. — Eunhyuk
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. — Franklin Foer
Short Soccer Fans Quotes
Our fans worldwide have become our friends as well. — James Murray
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass. — George Raveling
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. — Ron White
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
With the support of all our fans, we have to be stronger than our opponents. — Didier Deschamps
Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer
Cleveland fans are awesome. — LeBron James
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
Soccer Fans Image Quotes
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
Soccer Quotes
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
Keep working even when no one is watching. — Alex Morgan
Love your haters,theyre your biggest fans.
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet. — Zinedine Zidane
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it. — Ronaldinho
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Set your Life on Fire. Seek those who Fan your Flames
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills
I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else. — Abby Wambach
Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten. — Thomas Muller
Soccer Love Quotes
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that’s been the pinnacle for me with cricket. — Ellyse Perry
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. — Jessica Szohr
Every time I enter the field, it’s like, ‘Smriti, you have to score.’ And I love that responsibility. — Smriti Mandhana
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game. — Valentina Shevchenko
Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing. — Harry Kane
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to. — Stephen Hendry
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
Soccer Football Quotes
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time. — Ronaldinho
Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial. — Diego Maradona
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. — Pele
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
Soccer Team Quotes
When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one." — Carli Lloyd
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back — Tony Adams
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano
Great Soccer Quotes
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning. — John Piper
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. — Diego Maradona
In Britain, we don’t appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you. — Stephen Hendry
I want to become a legend, like Pele or Maradona. Or more than them. — Paul Pogba
Soccer Game Quotes
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
The game changed. We changed it, and we’re here to play the new one. — Charles Hoskinson
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
Those friendly games are not pointless. They enable us to go forward. — Didier Deschamps
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that. — Didier Deschamps
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. — Brandi Chastain
Soccer Mom Quotes
I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment. — Brandi Chastain
I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom. — Vinnie Paz
I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. — Neil Diamond
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. — Ann Coulter
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. — Freddy Adu
If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure. — Christopher West
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. — Anne Northup
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level. — Ann Coulter
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both. — Michelle Obama
I always just had a dream to spend more time with my father. But at the end of the day, my mom was the one who kept me in soccer,who kept me doing my homework, who provided me with meals on a daily basis. — Hope Solo
Soccer Player Quotes
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. — Bill Shankly
I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists – they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them. — Mikel Arteta
Every day is important, every act is important. The secret is that the people, players and staff have to believe what you are trying to deliver. — Mikel Arteta
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta
I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. — Claudio Reyna
Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science. — John W. Henry
I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them. — Mikel Arteta
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win — Vinnie Jones
I’ll give everything I have to be one of the best players in La Liga. — Antoine Griezmann
Soccer Coach Quotes
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job. — Mikel Arteta
After an international break you do not know if they are in the frame of mind to come back and do the things necessary to win this league. — Mikel Arteta
It isn’t hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have. — Harry Kane
If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies. — Daniel Tosh
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem. — John M. Gottman
Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it. — Ian Darke
Because I’m fairly big, I like to use my body. So I’ll control the ball, even when there’s a player on me, and then I’ll pass. — Paul Pogba
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed. — Eric Cantona
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. — Roy Keane
I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer. — Hope Solo
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. — J. B. Priestley
He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it. — Martin Tyler
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time. — Theodore Roosevelt
When I think of how special Anfield is and how special Liverpool is, everywhere around the world everyone is talking about Liverpool, it is because of the fan base. — John W. Henry
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers! — Bill Shankly
We know there is a very powerful fan base for Liverpool in Asia. We are not embarrassed to say we want to exploit that. — John W. Henry
I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age. — Cristiano Ronaldo
I went to the final of the Champions League, and I scored 32 goals. This pressure does not weigh too much. I’m on the field to have fun and give pleasure to the fans. — Antoine Griezmann
I was a fan myself, and I know what it’s like. If someone comes out of the blocks and scores 31 goals in one season, then you think, ‘OK, was that a one-off, or will he do it again?’ — Harry Kane
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool. — Bill Shankly
I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. — Claudio Reyna
Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me. — George Best
The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin. — Luke Wilson
If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be. — Bill Shankly
Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing. — Jim Rome
We have demonstrated that we are the best, I'm also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I've heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles. — Lionel Messi
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer. — Eamon Dunphy
So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz? — Frank Skinner
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists? — Pete Gill
When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery. — Matthew Syed
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them. — Bill Shankly
I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere. — Hope Solo
Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more. — Samuel Eto'o
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that. — Xavi
You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right. — Alex Ferguson
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City. — Alex Ferguson
I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels. — Jonathan Pearce
At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch — Don Howe
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. — Bill Shankly
As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has. — Joe Elliott
Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show. — Tucker Carlson
I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports. — Landon Donovan
Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did. — Bryan Robson
The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head. — Kevin Williams
According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean. — Nick Hancock
It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty. — Noel Gallagher
How can I think of leaving Liverpool after a night like this? I am really happy with the club. I will be having talks with the chairman and the manager shortly, but it is looking good. Liverpool fans are crazy, they were unbelievable, and I'd like to dedicate this victory to them. — Steven Gerrard
I've seen first-hand the great enthusiasm Portland has for soccer; it's a soccer-smart fan base that generates an incredible atmosphere. I am very much looking forward to the first season of Thorns FC. — Cindy Parlow Cone
I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa. — Virat Kohli
Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point. — Shane Battier
I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British. — Jason Statham
My show is an adult comedy show, but it isn't offensive. Your kids could listen to it, even though I hope they wouldn't 'get' most of it. But I get a lot of fan mail from soccer moms saying 'I love having your CD because I can listen to it with my kids in the car.' — Henry Cho
It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.
(on the 'This Anfield' plaque) — Bill Shankly
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