Quotes on soccer
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.
Weir, Tom
If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.
Rote, Kyle
Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball.
Unknown, Author
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Woosnam, Phil
I get a kick out of soccer.
Unknown, Author
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.
Royko, Mike
Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.
Murray, Jim
Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.
Unknown, Author
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Viera, Ondino
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.
Rous, Stanley
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
Wilde, Oscar
To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.
Gardner, Paul
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Hamm, Mia
Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.
Unknown, Author
I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.
Morecambe, Eric
You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
Hamm, Mia
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Hamm, Mia