Soccer Quotes (418 Quotes)

Diving in soccer is quite simply fraud.

Now we have to head back to camp to touch up the mistakes we made today. Overall, we looked good. The soccer is there, we just need to finish all our chances.

If it comes down to just soccer, we feel pretty good about our chances, that we can pretty much play with anybody. But you have unknown factors in a game, be it officials, crowds, other players. Those are things you gotta be smarter about, mature about, and still play within what we say we're going to do.

This one I really wanted because they've been around for so many years and they have such a great history in indoor soccer. It's progress. When these guys focus we're one of the best teams in the league.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

I think it will help my country. Soccer is the big thing in Mexico. This will show the kids in Mexico that there's a lot of opportunities out there for them.

My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

I think there's a lot more knowledge about kicking right now. Special teams coaches are more educated with the techniques for kickers to get better . . . With the success of a lot of soccer players, it's created a buzz with the soccer players to try (kicking) out.

It was a fun crowd. I was down there in the first two rounds in the first few rounds he was kind of on the back court and hearing the crowd go crazy. It seemed like they were almost a soccer crowd because I don't think they were all real tennis fans at the beginning of these few weeks, but by now I'm sure they are. It really does help and make a big difference when you know you have people cheering for you.

That's how I got back into the game, ... It was really exhilarating to me. I've always loved the game of soccer. I found myself wanting to do more. Because I'd be wherever the U.S. National Team was playing, I'd have time on my hands, and I volunteered with the U.S. Soccer Association. They asked me to do odd jobs.

Don't give up on soccer if it's what you love to do.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

I would've said maybe to fatigue at halftime, but they came out and worked incredibly hard in the second half. So they couldn't have been tired. We played one half of soccer today. I'm happy to go home tonight after the second half. If I would've had a second half like the first, I would've been furious.

It's very important to note that this is a league that's young, that continues to evolve and we make decisions that we think are in the best long-term interest of the league, ... We have added two new owners into this league both who are going to be in great markets and who at one point are going to be playing in soccer specific stadiums.

As far as we're concerned, the World Cup could start even tomorrow. Then all the secondary issues will disappear and we can focus on the main issue -- soccer.

That kid (Williams) is just phenomenal. He has everything you need in a soccer player. He's got the skills he's got the leadership, and he's got the talent.

Soccer, right now, is kind of his safe place because he's good at it. He's comfortable. He kind of directs the choir in the back.

Things started out really rough for us. We had a lot of kids who came in late from basketball and soccer, so it took them a while to catch up. But starting out 0-8 was pretty tough and stressful and that was because I anticipated us having a really good season.

It's time the American public steps forward and supporters of soccer in this country support our game by watching, by attending games, by buying soccer products, by being good consumers.

Gavin creates a nice link between last year's squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and passion for the game will be a valuable asset to the Timbers and to the soccer community.

In the United States, there's a strong taboo against racism in England it's only happened in the past 15 years. In Spain and Eastern Europe, there is none of this revulsion among most people. There are few people of color, so a black player on the field is a new thing. In that sense, soccer is seen by racists as the vanguard of the world outside sweeping into town.

We've made some changes over the past few months, such as recently adding new athletic fields -- for soccer, football, lacrosse and varsity baseball -- by the end of this past summer before starting the actual construction for the building.

I think that's what angers them about us. We have lives beyond soccer. For a lot of them they don't, players, coaches, people in Mexico, that's what they have. It's almost what makes it sweeter to beat them.

It wasn't pretty, but it was need win. It is difficult to play on such a small field with so much wind. We tried to get the ball into their half and into the box, then play a little soccer. We will work on finishing our chances before next Tuesday, especially the easy ones.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

It took a basketball player to win a soccer game.

If you're in an outdoor event, for example let's say a soccer game, and the person next to you is smoking on a normal bleacher and if the wind is blowing in your direction, it's like someone sitting next to you in a restaurant. Now, if the distance is far

There's actually a little sense of relief. All the pressure is behind us. Now we can just play soccer.

There was one series (on Saturday) that was absolutely beautiful one-touch soccer. That's the type of football that I want to play. It's necessary that we have the ability to attack in the middle channel, that we have the ability to attack on the flanks. So yes, we continue to work on varying the way we attack. That's the only way we're going to repeat as champions.

I think it speaks to the level of talent in the area. These kids have come through the club level and they're ready when they get to high school. This area is a hotbed of soccer right now.

It becomes a learning process. Parents don't know very much about soccer because they don't have a soccer background, so they have to rely on their children, so that increases the level of communication, hopefully, in the family.

It's true that it hasn't been great but I don't think it's been too bad. I contributed things for my club and the national team and this should be respected. It seems as if I don't score I don't do anything. Soccer has a very short memory.

You always want to end your career in the jersey you started, ... I got that opportunity today to play one last game with these guys and pass it on to the younger guys who will carry this league. I think we've done as much as we could do on the field, so now it's time for a lot of these younger kids the Eddie Gavins, Landon Donovans, DeMarcus Beasleys to take the reins. We can work on the outside become the coaches, the GMs, the guys who run U.S. Soccer.

We were missing our attack tonight. We weren't holding the ball very long. It was like we were playing only two-thirds soccer.

It doesn't matter that Alison played soccer, and we play field hockey. We were all classmates or teammates of Alison and it was definitely very important for us to be here.

It's a tough part about the sport of soccer. You can really possess it a lot and do a lot of things right but you have to score goals.

In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.

Everyone knows soccer is a grueling sport. You have to be physically fit. You can't do that in two weeks or in a month. It takes time to get back to running up and down the field and getting your lungs opened up and building back stamina and fitness.

Oh, man, Phil thought I was in deep st after I smashed the windshield driving through a soccer goal, but the next day when it was time to take the rental car back, Rake Yohn thought it would be funny to set the AM radio on fire. Well, the whole car blew the fk up forty seconds from my house, and the only thing I had to pay was the nine bucks for the extra insurance.

It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's another thing to have a bunch of young children, whose bodies are still growing and developing, playing soccer, falling down and rolling on the ground, and spending a large amount of time there every week.

Two of the most popular sporting events in the world are the World Cup of soccer and the Olympics, and one of the reasons they're successful is because they combine sport with nationalism. Any time you do that, you expand the interest in the sport.

The MNST is made up of the best players in the country still playing amateur soccer. It's a great honor to have Hugh representing our campus.

They're in Europe this year, ... They play really good attacking soccer. That's the way Keegan likes playing. There's a lot of good players in the club. Everything about it is exciting, the training ground, the stadium, the whole package.

When I first took over, I had a bunch of kids who wanted to play soccer. Now I have a bunch of soccer players who aspire to be champions. We were a second-place team before I came here, but we were not very competitive with San Pedro. Now we can hang with anyone in the City.

We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soccer is it, and soccer is definitely it in Italy.

One of the highlights (of our season) last year was obviously making it to state, but we also played good, effective soccer. That's our goal always at Geneva, and we did a nice job of that. I think it bodes well for the program on both the boys' side and the girls' side.

I'm overwhelmed. I always worked because it was in my body. To be rewarded like this is the highlight of my life. Soccer has been my life as long as I can remember.

England is the strongest team in the group. It's England the birth place of soccer and this will be the first time we have faced them in an official match.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

It's a pleasure to watch him play for anyone that loves soccer, and it's a pleasure to think, as a fan, that he could play for your team. Right now it appears difficult to me because he's tied to Arsenal by a contract and because I think he wants to stay in London.