748 Quotes About Soccer

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

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

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.

You can't play soccer like this. It's unbelievable. The team was very tense having to play without fans. It's really absurd.

He is inexperienced but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.

How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.

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.