“A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.”
“I’m not sure if I’m going to get into coaching. I’m sure I’ll stay in soccer somehow.”
“Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That’s what we do at halftime.”
“I’ve always wanted to become a professional soccer player.”
“I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.”
“I like to play soccer and paintball. I love paintball.”
“I think that soccer is one thing, and money is another thing.”
“I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.”
“Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.”
“My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.”
“My dream was always to play soccer.”
“I actually got my start playing indoor soccer with the boys, a bunch of boys I played with. We eventually became a club team and then essentially got to the point where I couldn’t be a girl on the boys’ team, so I switched over to JB Marine.”
“Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You’re running; you’re getting tackled.”
“St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.”
“U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.”
“After the ’96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.”
“I love soccer; I want to be on the field.”
“I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.”
“I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.”
“To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.”
“I want to be involved in soccer some way.”
“It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.”
“I’ve played soccer since I was five.”
“Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.”
“I don’t run on the treadmill, because there’s no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.”
“I gave up soccer. But I don’t think I can ever stop running.”
“Stanford’s an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.”
“I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.”
“Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer’s always my priority.”
“I’m a little embarrassed to say I’m a little bit of a soccer dad.”
“I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg – a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It’s perfect.”
“I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.”
“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.”
“We didn’t have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.”
“In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.”
“I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.”
“I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.”
“The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.”
“Soccer is a magical game.”
“People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they’re wrong.”
“I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.”
“Move with them, be active with them – whether it’s swimming or scooting or bicycling or playing soccer. Engage your child.”
“I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.”
“How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?”
“The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.”
“I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.”
“From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That’s their way.”
“Soccer is taken extremely seriously in Turkey.”
“I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.”
“I didn’t want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.”
“Soccer is my life.”
“Epic things happen in soccer.”
“I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it’s not like I never exercised.”
“If I’d grown up in Sao Paulo, I’m sure I would’ve been a great soccer fan.”
“We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.”
“I grew up playing soccer with the boys – quite far from reading magazines.”
“I played soccer, recreationally, in college.”
“I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master.”
“Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.”
“I liked soccer. I played it for two years.”
“I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.”
“I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.”
“I wanted to be a soccer player.”
“My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.”
“I don’t just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.”
“I’m not a fan of soccer, for sure not.”
“I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.”
“I play on a soccer team.”
“I only try to play good soccer.”
“I would love being the soccer mom.”
“My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-working Colorado families.”
“I’m not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.”
“That’s soccer. There are good games and others that aren’t so much.”
“By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.”
“Sometimes women’s soccer can be political.”
“I’m from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.”
“What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.”
“My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.”
“I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.”
“Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.”
“I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.”
“Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals’ ideological riots sometimes kill millions.”
“I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn’t happen.”
“I don’t really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I’ve been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.”
“On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.”
“Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.”
“San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It’s time that we put our best foot forward.”
“I’ve written about superheroes. I’ve written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being chased by madmen. I’ve written about spies and demon-hunting soccer moms. I’ve created an entire world that centers around a paranormal judicial system.”
“I don’t watch shows. I watch a lot of sports. Not soccer. I hate soccer.”
“I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it’s just going to keep getting bigger.”
“Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.”
“I have a ton of broken baby hairs in front. It just comes with the territory of being a soccer player.”
“I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn’t continue to excel in those categories.”
“Rap is supposed to scare soccer moms.”
“My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.”
“I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.”
“I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.”
“I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.”
“I’m a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.”
“I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I’m not.”
“I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.”
“Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.”
“I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.”
“I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they’re in soccer and choral events.”
“What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.”
“Soccer is still my favourite sport.”
“I decided to have a life: to become – pardon the expression – a soccer mom.”
“As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.”
“You can’t die from going to the stadium to see a soccer match.”
“I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president – I even dated the homecoming queen.”
“I’m a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.”
“I think soccer kept me off the street.”
“My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.”
“I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.”
“I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations – and preferably winning it.”
“I’ve been an athlete my whole life. I’ve played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.”
“Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.”
“There’s apparently soccer leagues that they’ve set up with young Indian girls.”
“I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.”
“I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn’t been a soccer player.”
“I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.”
“No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.”
“For me, soccer was a dance.”
“Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I’m not sure why.”
“Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.”
“A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.”
“It used to break my heart that I didn’t get to start in varsity soccer!”
“Soccer runs in my blood.”
“When you talk about Mexican culture, it’s wrestling and soccer.”
“In soccer, you have to be sly.”
“I don’t follow English soccer because it’s become a game for hooligans.”
“I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.”
“My heroes were always soccer players.”
“I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.”
“I’m a runner from sports. I’ve been a runner, but I wasn’t a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.”
“I used to go to fights in Japan, mega shows at soccer stadiums. They would have all kinds of martial arts fights in one night.”
“I went to my first college to play soccer.”
“What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.”
“Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.”
“I wasn’t a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.”
“I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.”
“Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.”
“I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.”
“My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.”
“Soccer was actually my first love, but eventually, basketball took that over.”
“I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.”
“Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics.”
“People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.”
“What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.”
“Soccer’s not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.”
“I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.”
“In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they’d fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.”
“I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.”
“Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.”
“I’d grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.”
“I love soccer.”
“I played English football – soccer – instead of American football, because we couldn’t afford the equipment.”
“I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.”
“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.”
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