Quotes About Soccer Players

#1. saying Daphne was a worrywart was like saying soccer players' legs were a thing of jaw-dropping, panty-melting goodness. It was just a fact of life.

Avery Flynn

#2. Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

Xavi

#3. You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#4. Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

Abby Wambach

#5. Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

Lorrie Fair

#6. Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.

George Vecsey

#7. 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

#8. My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The greatest injustice I had ever seen humans perpetrate against themselves was unwholesome as I was yet to come to terms with the pitiable situation where well-meaning people argued about the lives of soccer players who did not even know that they, the debaters, existed.

S.A. David

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

Dave Barry

#13. One day the UN Secretary General proposes that, in the interest of global peace and harmony, the world's soccer players should come together and form one United Nations global soccer team.

"Great idea," says his deputy. "Er, but who would we play?"

"Israel, of course.

Mark Steyn

#14. What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

George Vecsey

#15. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

Hampton Sides

#16. People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

David Beckham

#17. Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

Pele

#18. At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch

Don Howe

#19. We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#20. My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#21. If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

Claudio Ranieri

#22. You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

Alex Ferguson

#23. Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

Bobby Charlton

#24. The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

Ron Noades

#25. I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

Roy Keane

#26. I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

Lilian Thuram

#27. I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?

Ryan Giggs

#28. Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

George Best

#29. Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?

Simon Kuper

#30. 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

#31. Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

Chad Harbach

#32. Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.

John Helm

#33. Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

Jack Welch

#34. I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

Olly Murs

#35. The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

Rafael Benitez

#36. I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#37. I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Ronaldinho

#38. Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

George Boateng

#39. Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#40. If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

Jose Mourinho

#41. This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

Javier Clemente

#42. Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

Tony DiCicco

#43. We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

Lorik Cana

#44. This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar ... in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#45. I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#46. The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.

Helenio Herrera

#47. The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Samuel Eto'o

#48. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

David Bennun

#49. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Bill Shankly

#50. Systems are made by players rather than players making systems

Theo Foley

#51. After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

Brandi Chastain

#52. I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

#53. I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

Landon Donovan

#54. Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

Ian Rush

#55. Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

Tommy Docherty

#56. I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.

Andy Gray

#57. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

Matt Dickinson

#58. Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

Xavi

#59. I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

Jimmy Greaves

#60. Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#61. I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Arsene Wenger

#62. Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

Tony DiCicco

#63. Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."

Johan Cruijff

#64. When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.

Landon Donovan

#65. I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

Andres Iniesta

#66. If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players

Theo Foley

#67. I will be the one lifting that trophy, not Paolo Maldini. Imagine me hoisting the trophy. It is an image I have in my mind and I want to make it a reality. We have world-class players and, believe me, they are in the mood to do it. The atmosphere around the club at the moment is just top-class.

Steven Gerrard

#68. I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

Jose Mourinho

#69. Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Gordon Strachan

#70. I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

Rabih Alameddine

#71. The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Daniel Finkelstein