Famous Quotes & Sayings

Markus Zusak

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Michiel Huisman

I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

Michel Patini

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

Shay Given

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

Rafael Nadal

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

Nigel Worthington

A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

Nick Saban

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Nick Hornby

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

Matt Damon

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

Knute Rockne

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Knute Rockne

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Knute Rockne

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Knute Rockne

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Knute Rockne

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Mike Ditka

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

Not me. I've got three kids. I've got to get back for soccer practice.

James Joyce

All human history moves towards one great goal

Lamar Hunt

We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking at ways to improve Arrowhead-which is oriented for NFL games--for our spectators.

Lamar Hunt

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.

Kyle Schmid

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

Libba Bray

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

Johnny Weir

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

Jake Epstein

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Heather Mitts

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.

Heather Mitts

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

Eric Idle

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

You can see there's a lot of soccer in that player, so we're hopeful.

Luis Suarez

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

Luis Suarez

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.

Angela Ruggiero

You could see when she scored, she wasn't celebrating. That's just how she is. She's a goal-scorer, in hockey, in soccer and in lacrosse. That's just what she does.

Roberto Mancini

You can't play soccer like this. It's unbelievable. The team was very tense having to play without fans. It's really absurd.