I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball. – French Montana
During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me ‘Touch’ because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport. – Chad le Clos
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That’s their way. – Eduardo Galeano
You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there’s only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. – Emanuel Steward
I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president – I even dated the homecoming queen. – Matthew Morrison
Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game. – Nick Saban
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn’t get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront – he didn’t get that. – Pete Hamill
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn’t let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, ‘I’m going to quit,’ he’d be like, ‘No, you’re going to try everything and keep going at it.’ – Carlos Pena, Jr.
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it. – Magnus Scheving
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. – Nobu Matsuhisa
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful. – Garth Brooks
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl. – Evangeline Lilly
Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom. – Gary Allan
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn’t make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make. – Craig Johnston
I think a lot of people thought women’s soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn’t realistic. It has progressed slowly. – Christine Sinclair
I love being an older comic now. It’s like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You’re in the Hall of Fame and it’s nice, but you’re no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. – Eric Idle
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don’t need to just play soccer. – Miguel Nicolelis
I love soccer. That’s all I ever watch. I’ll watch it all day if I can. But I’m too bloody old to play now. – Geezer Butler
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. – David Ginola
When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games. – Drew Carey
A lot of leftists think it is soccer’s fault that people don’t think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet. – Eduardo Galeano
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. – Doug Davidson
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring. – Eduardo Galeano
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. – Claudio Reyna
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
When Sweden’s Jan-Ove Waldner travels to China to play table tennis, he is mobbed when he leaves his hotel as if he were a rock star walking around Manhattan or a soccer star walking around Europe. – George Vecsey
Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States. – George Vecsey
