Soccer Player Quotes - Page 4

• When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one."

  Carli Lloyd

  Soccer, Team, Hard Work

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

  Adam Oates

  Soccer, Growing Up, Father

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• I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

  Nate Robinson

  Soccer, Player, Nba

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• I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

  John Oliver

  Soccer, Player, Wanted

  "Guest Host John Oliver Will Try Not to Destroy 'The Daily Show'". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

  James Surowiecki

  Soccer, Baseball, Player

  "Scrimmage". www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2011.

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• I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game.
  I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

  Charlie Davies

  Soccer, Moving, Athlete

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• "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

  Inspirational, Basketball, Soccer

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• If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

  Marat Safin

  Soccer, Pain, Mistake

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• At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Soccer, Fitness, Running

  Interview with Kim Tranell, www.seventeen.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

  Ian Botham

  Soccer, Sports, Growing Up

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• At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

  Jo Nesbo

  Soccer, Player, League

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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  Ian McShane

  Soccer, Football, Teacher

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• I am going to be a professional soccer player.

  Hope Solo

  Soccer, Player

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.

  Jozy Altidore

  Soccer, Player, Goal

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

  Pat McAfee

  Soccer, Football, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

  Dave Barry

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Soccer, Baseball, Player

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• If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

  Juan Enriquez

  Soccer, Latin, Technology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Soccer, Running, Player

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• Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.

  Carol Bellamy

  Soccer, Sports, Player

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• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Kids

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• I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

  Jake Epstein

  Soccer, Player, Rabbi

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• Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

  Pele

  Soccer, Father, Player

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. April 27, 2011.

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

  Sean Durkin

  Soccer, Player, Goal

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

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• Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Country, Thinking

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