Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mia Hamm

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Mia Hamm

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

Martin Jol

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

Nelson Mandela

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

Nelson Mandela

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

Nelson Mandela

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Kristin Armstrong

I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

Kristin Armstrong

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

Marcel Desailly

One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

Kenny Dalglish

You might as well talk to my baby daughter. You'll get more sense out of her

Kenny Dalglish

As I've said before and I've said it in the past...

Paul Gascoigne

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

Paul Gascoigne

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

Patrick Rothfuss

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

Parminder Nagra

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.

Parminder Nagra

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

Parminder Nagra

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

Parminder Nagra

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

P. J. O'Rourke

...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

Paul Merson

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'

Paul Ince

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

Ishmael Beah

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

Harry Redknapp

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Harry Redknapp

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

Harry Redknapp

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

Harry Redknapp

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

Harry Redknapp

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Harry Redknapp

I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!

Kathy Griffin

I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

Michael Ballack

But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.

Rafael Benitez

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.