Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shailene Woodley

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.

Scott Westerfeld

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

Steven Page

I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

Stuart Pearce

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

Robbie Savage

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

Ronaldo

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

Ronaldo

I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

Ronaldo

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

Ronaldinho

I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field.

Ronaldinho

My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Ronaldinho

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

Ron Atkinson

There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

Ron Atkinson

Our fans have been branded with the same brush

Ron Atkinson

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

Ron Atkinson

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

Ron Atkinson

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

Ron Atkinson

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Ron Atkinson

On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

Ron Atkinson

The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

Ron Atkinson

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

Raul Lopez

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

Stan Smith

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stephen Chow

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Samuel Eto'o

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Samuel Eto'o

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Wayne Gretzky

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Vladimir Putin

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Woody Allen

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

Will Ferrell

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.

Wes Welker

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

Zach Braff

For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?