Soccer Quotes - Page 17

• [At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.

  Elana Meyers

  Basketball, Summer, Softball

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

  Charles Payne

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.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

  Football, Player, Atmosphere

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

  Pat McAfee

  Violence, Thirst

  The Bleacher Report Interview, bleacherreport.com. May 30, 2009.

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• Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Sports, Numbers, Remember

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• Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Girl, Glasses, Guy

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• Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues.

  Joey Votto

  Baseball, People, League

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• Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Football, Eggs, Differences

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• The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Girl, Athlete, Opportunity

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• Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Stuff, Wanted, Down Time

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• I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big.

  Peja Stojakovic

  Bigs, My Future

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• I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

  Wes Welker

  Grew Up, Playing Soccer, Grew

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• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

  Tanc Sade

  Thinking, Australia, Rugby

  Source: collider.com

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• My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

  Tanc Sade

  Distance, Two, Swim

  Source: collider.com

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• I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

  Tanc Sade

  Real, Team, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Fighting, Games, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Dream, Team, Nfl

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• You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

  Matt Bahr

  Teamwork, Attitude, Real

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• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Basketball, Kids, Airports

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• Another reason why I am always close to the people, because the communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to... I continued to work with UNICEF. I did a lot of work with UNESCO. We did a lot of charity programme and games.

  Pele

  Communication, Games, Play

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• 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

  Kids, Mary, Wells

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• They create these rules and argue about things we don't even understand. It is like watching soccer. You sit there and you're sort of amused, but most of the time you're thinking, pick up the ball! That's what you're thinking.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Balls, Arguing

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• His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. 
  (on Freddy Adu)

  Pele

  Play, Feet, Brazil

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• The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. 
  (on Major League Soccer)

  Cobi Jones

  Thinking, Usa, League

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• If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Europe, America

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