
I wanted to be a
soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level. —
Tim Howard

And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0. —
Ian Darke

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent. —
Bryan Robson

Many people say I'm the best women's
soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be. —
Mia Hamm

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once. —
Raul Lopez

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done —
Bryan Robson

The game must have been past my bed-time. —
Theo Walcott

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax. —
Gary Lineker

I never knew that Americans would take up
soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there. —
Mal Peet

He is inexperienced but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through. —
Steve McClaren
Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it —
Eduardo Galeano

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival,
soccer will have its place. —
Desmond Morris

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal
soccer club. —
Eric Cantona

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time -
soccer columns, this and that. —
Aleksandar Hemon

I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on
soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career. —
Landon Donovan

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.' —
Luiz Felipe Scolari

I played English football -
soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. —
Wally Schirra

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself. —
Mike Gray

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day. —
H. L. Hunt

The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got —
Jimmy Greaves

It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through —
Jimmy Hill

I want to be involved in
soccer some way. —
Brian McBride

I was glad to watch the
soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog. —
Serena Williams

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world
soccer space, to spread out the world football space. —
Vladimir Putin

I manage a team, for beach
soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach. —
Eric Cantona

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me. —
Cristiano Ronaldo

A holocaust of an afternoon. —
Carlton Palmer

That goal surprised most people, least of all myself —
Garth Crooks

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself —
Joe Royle

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa,
soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. —
Nelson Mandela

I always played
soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear. —
Ian Astbury

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim. —
Berti Vogts
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. —
Johan Cruyff

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us. —
Steve Staunton

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. —
George Best

Give a man a
soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play
soccer, he plays for a life time. —
Theodore Roosevelt

Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. —
Lionel Messi

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark. —
John Helm

We need to forget about mistakes and take the positives. —
Steven Gerrard

Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning. —
Ron Atkinson

I got to experience
soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. —
Mia Hamm

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers. —
Jon Champion

At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch —
Don Howe

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business. —
Michel Patini

Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them. —
Bill Shankly

And meade had a hatrick. He scoresd two goals —
Richard Whitmore

I don't hold water with that theory —
Ron Greenwood
Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies. —
Jack Charlton

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play
soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity. —
Pete Wentz

I'm not as big a
soccer fan as people might imagine, being British. —
Jason Statham

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose —
Des Lynam

The aura of
soccer is very different from other sports. —
Dave Checketts

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple. —
Paul Ince

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

There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had. —
Alan Parry

I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I'm a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little bit of
soccer. —
Henry Ian Cusick

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. —
Pete Gill

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague. —
Giovanni Trapattoni

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can. —
Jose Mourinho

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire. —
Henry Winter

Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we? —
Paolo Di Canio

International football is the continuation of war by other means. —
George Orwell

And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one. —
Elton Welsby

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human. —
Carl Sagan

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable. —
Paul Gascoigne

Is he ever going to learn? —
Graham Taylor

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed. —
Danny Baker
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[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important. —
John Sutherland

Germany are a very difficult team to play ... they have eleven internationals out there today. —
Steve Lomas

Some things you can shake off, some things dig deeper than
soccer. —
Landon Donovan

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and
soccer —
Mal Peet

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six —
Fred Dinenage

Every
soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those. —
Luis Suarez

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz? —
Frank Skinner

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

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road. —
Alan Green

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland —
Mike Ingham

I am an emotional person, and
soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind. —
Martin Winterkorn

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget. —
Gianfranco Zola

I love
soccer; I want to be on the field. —
Brandi Chastain