Punted Soccer Quotes

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close ... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble. ~ Alan Hansen

If your child's going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn't do any of those things, then they're probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too. ~ Eula Biss

Peter: "What is it with girls and rain?"
Lara Jean: "I don't know ... I guess maybe because everything feels more dramatic in the rain"
Peter: "Did anything actually happen with you two, or were you just standing out in the rain picking up soccer balls? ~ Jenny Han

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls! ~ Brian Clough

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing. ~ Martin Samuel

The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that? ~ Daniel Finkelstein

Soccer is my first love. I've 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. ~ Kyle Schmid

After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That's how highly they rated him. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport. ~ Sherman Alexie

We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to do with talent or that there is a relationship between penis size and sexual pleasure. Good soccer players need not to be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues. ~ Eduardo Galeano

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

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. ~ Bo Jackson

When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game. ~ Abby Wambach

It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets. ~ Neal Stephenson

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing. ~ George Vecsey

Nightmare completed, another humiliating defeat. 10 goals in 2 game.
It will take time to come out from such humiliating defeat for Brazilian fans. But I think when you like something, when you fall to someone, when you are in love, you like them whatever happens, even they give tears to you time to time because you liked it from your heart. ~ Nutan Bajracharya

Let slip the dogs of champions. ~ Jose Mourinho

Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen ~ Des Lynam

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.' ~ Jose Mourinho

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

I nodded, mollified. "Okay, I can roll with that. And then after that, I suppose it's just a matter of time until we're taking the kids to soccer practice."
Her eyebrows rose. "Kids?"
"Relax, it's years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks . . . then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get." She looked more amused than appalled at the speculation, which was something I'd never thought I'd see. "It's really not even fair to everyone else. Good thing you're on birth control, since the world obviously isn't ready for our perfect offspring." "Obviously," she laughed. ~ Richelle Mead

Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials. ~ Andrew Luck

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. ~ David Acfield

If you look at anybody who's been marketed, it's been somebody who has been drop-dead hot and gorgeous,' Milbrett said. 'For men, you just have to be good. It doesn't matter what the hell you look like. For women, you have to be good and you have to be gorgeous. Maybe you're not even the best one on your team. Just as long as you look good, you're marketed. People's opinions are that this team is gorgeous. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is the double standard in society and athletics. ~ Jere Longman

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring. ~ Eduardo Galeano

I play on a soccer team. ~ Jake Short

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother's friends and play video games. ~ Jud Tylor

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back. ~ Deb Caletti

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean. ~ Nick Hancock

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that ~ Bryan Robson

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness. ~ Dwight Garner

Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying. ~ Mia Hamm

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. ~ Harry Sinden

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death. ~ Tadeusz Borowski

So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole. ~ Tony Gubba

I didn't do anything [during the game]. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier. ~ Robinho

Jane turned and looked at Rob who was still staring into space with a crazed look on his face.

'Are you listening to this?' she said as she thumped him on the arm.

Rob turned to her and broke into a broad grin.

'Listening to what?' he laughed. 'I'm loaded. I don't have to listen to anything!'

'Yes you do,' said England calmly. 'You have to listen very carefully. ~ Dougie Brimson

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football. ~ Ondino Viera

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big. ~ Peja Stojakovic

It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end. ~ Lorik Cana