Soccer Quotes - Page 48

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.

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.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.

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.'

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

People always remember the second half.

It feel like winning the cup final, if that's what it feels like

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

It was a titanic effort.

Football's all about 90 minutes

When a player gets to 30, so does his body

Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.