Soccer Quotes - Page 22

• Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

  Simon Sinek

  School, Kids, Games

  "Making Sacrifices". www.askmen.com.

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• I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.

  Hope Solo

  Years, Games, Focus

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• I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

  Hope Solo

  Focus, Want, Solo

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• My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

  Hope Solo

  Girl, Father, Daddy

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". "All Things Considered" with Cheryl Corley, www.npr.org. August 18, 2012.

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• Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

  Mary McGrory

  Baseball, Football, Nfl Football

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• As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.

  Donald Trump

  Ambition, Adventure, Thinking

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• Every disadvantage has its advantage.

  Johan Cruijff

  Sports, Advantage, Disadvantages

  "They Said It: Johan Cruyff". www.fifa.com. April 25, 2014.

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• It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.

  Vahid Halilhodzic

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Character

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• I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Sports, Football, Facts

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• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

  Roy Keane

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy (2002). “Keane: The Autobiography”

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

  Brandi Chastain

  Football, Thinking, Community

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• In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

  Parminder Nagra

  Girl, Hockey, Balls

  "A Conversation with Parminder Nagra". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Baseball, Hockey, Winter

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

  Serge Schmemann

  Complaining, Want, Spoiled

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

  Ethan Zohn

  Kids, Impact, Bridges

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• What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

  Sean Durkin

  Player, Coaches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Games, Watches, Half

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• There's no honor in soccer

  Alexi Lalas

  Honor

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• Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

  Jim Rome

  Car, Acting, Fans

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• It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

  Pele

  Team, Men, Years

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• If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi

  Lewis Grizzard

  Pepsi, Would Be, Soft Drinks

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• Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.

  Ian Feuer

  Hard Work, Easy, Coaches

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• The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Play, Opponents

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• It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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