Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandi Chastain

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Brandi Chastain

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.

Brandi Chastain

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

Brandi Chastain

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

Brandi Chastain

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Boris Johnson

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

Bobby Robson

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

Bobby Robson

In a year's time, he's a year older.

Bobby Robson

The margin is very marginal.

Bobby Robson

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

Billy Connolly

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

Billy Connolly

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Bobby Charlton

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

Bobby Charlton

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

Edward Smith

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

Bob Paisley

I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

Bob Paisley

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

Bob Paisley

I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

Bob Paisley

I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.

Bob Paisley

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

Bob Paisley

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

Bill Parcells

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Bernardo Bertolucci

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

David Icke

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

Bobby Moore

At least is was a victory and at least we won

Craig Johnston

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Cobi Jones

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

Cobi Jones

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

Cobi Jones

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

Cobi Jones

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)

Cobi Jones

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

Elizabeth Taylor

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

Brian Kilmeade

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.