748 Quotes About Soccer

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.