Soccer Skills Quotes

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period. ~ Martin Evans

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging ... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm? ~ David Brin

Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song. ~ Sabrina Bryan

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

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms. ~ Al Kaline

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

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. ~ Bobby Robson

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer. ~ Thomas Dooley

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. ~ Hope Solo

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player. ~ Pele

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God. ~ Hugo Sanchez

Germany are a very difficult team to play ... they have eleven internationals out there today. ~ Steve Lomas

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. ~ Ugo Ehiogu

I am going to be a professional soccer player. ~ Hope Solo

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

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. ~ J.B. Priestley

I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. ~ Ann Coulter

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

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly. ~ Sibel Kekilli

When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be. ~ Landon Donovan

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher. ~ Kuno Becker

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. ~ Freddy Adu

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself. ~ Mike Gray

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why. ~ Rafael Nadal

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs. ~ Mitch Hedberg

Keep working even when no one is watching. ~ Alex Morgan

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies. ~ Jack Charlton

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed. ~ Eric Cantona

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. ~ Pele

Soccer must be played with the heart,not with strength and talent as perceived. ~ ABC

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice. ~ Alton Brown

Sometimes in football you have to score goals. ~ Thierry Henry

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell

I love soccer; I want to be on the field. ~ Brandi Chastain

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer ~ Mal Peet

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer. ~ Will Ferrell

Red Bull is committed to providing not only quality domestic soccer, but also quality international soccer. You can't get much better than Barcelona. Our entire organization is excited about the opportunity to play one of the premier teams in the world. ~ Alexi Lalas

In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a ... well, yes I am. ~ Jon Stewart

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best. ~ Alan Shearer

Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills. ~ Bryant McGill

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. ~ Mia Hamm

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life. ~ Sean Durkin

How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach. ~ Matthew Hayden

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer). ~ Albert Camus

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on. ~ Mick Jagger

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills. ~ John Roos

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up. ~ Landon Donovan

I don't hold water with that theory ~ Ron Greenwood

The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome ~ Tony Gubba

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women. ~ Julie Foudy

If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey). ~ Tom O'Brien

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. ~ Vidal Sassoon

If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America. ~ Ethan Zohn

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there. ~ Mal Peet

It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction. ~ Eric Hoffer

I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again. ~ Pablo Francisco

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

Life is a soccer field, don't you think? ~ Shakira

The dice are stacked against them ~ Theo Foley

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton ~ David Coleman

I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them. ~ Donald Trump

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

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field. ~ Andres Iniesta

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23! ~ Kevin Keegan

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. ~ Hakeem Olajuwon

Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury ~ Jock Brown

No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer. ~ Pele

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

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder. ~ Serge Schmemann

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

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why. ~ Rabih Alameddine

We are really the victims of our own problems. ~ Jimmy Greaves

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European. ~ Phil Neville

I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards. ~ Mia Hamm

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it. ~ Pamela Anderson

I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck. ~ Olly Murs

If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright. ~ Robbie Earle

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play. ~ Judah Friedlander

Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S. ~ Rabih Alameddine

Systems are made by players rather than players making systems ~ Theo Foley

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect. ~ Danny McBride

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. ~ Gillian Armstrong

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood. ~ J. D. Pardo

ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer. ~ Jay Leno

Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team. ~ Chad Ochocinco

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. ~ Stanley Rous

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. ~ Lamar Hunt

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

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. ~ Nobu Matsuhisa

I play on a soccer team. ~ Jake Short

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers. ~ Peter Robinson

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected. ~ Daniel Tosh

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ~ Penn Jillette