Playing Soccer Quotes

• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

  19 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ronaldo

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

  75 Copy quote

• 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

  Soccer, Football, People

  103 Copy quote

• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

  Johnny Giles

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  13 Copy quote
• 

  What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Football, Play

  83 Copy quote

• Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  108 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

  Freddy Adu

  Soccer, Moving, Play

  8 Copy quote

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

  Steve Lomas

  Funny, Soccer, Team

  8 Copy quote

• He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Football, Play

  31 Copy quote

• Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

  Ali Larter

  Girl, Soccer, Growing Up

  7 Copy quote

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

  Mike Ditka

  Soccer, Men, Play

  40 Copy quote

• Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Men, Play

  19 Copy quote

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

  Pele

  Soccer, Doubt, Earning

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ishmael Beah

  Soccer, Morning, School

  "Former Child Soldier Recalls Experiences in Sierra Leone". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Being Yourself, Team

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

  Xavi

  Soccer, Player, Careers

  13 Copy quote

• I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

  Gregg Sulkin

  Soccer, Sports, Team

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies.

  Chelsea Handler

  Soccer, Years, Lazy

  Source: variety.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Soccer, Kids, Mary

  4 Copy quote

• When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Soccer, Legs, Seven

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2010

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Soccer, Song, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Soccer, Baby

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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?

  Zach Braff

  Soccer, Years, People

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

  4 Copy quote