A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don’t go to football matches but that doesn’t make football any less important.

You can see there’s a lot of soccer in that player, so we’re hopeful.

Soccer speaks for itself. It doesn’t matter where you’re from.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.

She was a great leader, a great soccer player. The strength of the team is the team, not the individuals. She was somebody we looked toward to make things happen. And her personality was even...

I’m sure they talk a lot. I’m sure it’s a lot about soccer, but I’m also sure a lot of it’s not. It’s about life and how they’re enjoying their different experiences and things like...

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

Once you sit in this stadium, you realize it’s one of the great places to watch soccer.

We played great soccer and with a bit of luck, we could have scored a couple more. Now we’ll have to beat the Latvians.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

Sometimes in soccer, the ball doesn’t bounce your way.

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and...

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Fuck. You. It’s foot… Yeah, it’s you.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c’est au football que je le dois.(I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

I’d much rather watch football than football.” But I’m just teasing them, and they know I’d really rather watch football than football.

This is not an easy trip for Notre Dame soccer, but it’s a trip I think we have got the ability to take something positive out of it.

We were good on the counter attack and created a lot of chances . . . there was some very good soccer on display today from our players in the second half.

Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio.

(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They smear on substantial quantities of hair care products and expend considerable mental energies...

Football is all about sentiment; if it weren’t then we’d all support Manchester United.

Don’t you want to get well? Come on, Portia, this won’t be forever, mate: Dad’s confident, everyone’s behind you. Remember,’ I gave her an encouraging punch on the arm, ‘you’ll never walk alone, even if...

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

…I’ve spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as “the sport of the future” since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never...

He’s a player who eliminates his rivals and that makes him a type of terrorist in today’s soccer. He eliminates them, leaving them without any hope of recovery.

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...

[In the first half] we gave them a little bit in terms of more space and didn’t really allow them to sneak in behind as much. Part of that is our midfield stepped up its...

Football is the poetry of a motion.

There’s a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they’ve gotten better over time, the English and Italians developed the tradition of...

If I had done my job better of preparing these guys, we would have done better. But (Freedom’s) soccer, well, wasn’t really soccer. They had to rely on free kicks and throw-ins. And for us...

The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

To be an owner of a team is something I dream of doing once I retire. Maybe even a soccer team and a basketball team. I can’t see myself away from basketball if I retire...

Pele popularized the bicycle kick, and I created the unicycle kick. It’s like the bicycle kick, only it requires more balance and one less wheel.

I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn’t get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no...

It was a clean kick and if it was soccer, he would’ve scored a goal. It would be a big loss for them. David Bolland is a 130-point scorer but he’s more than that. He’s...

We only have so many soccer fields and we basically have to cut it off at a certain number because we don’t have the fields to put kids on, … We need more soccer fields...

We’ll have 26 teams coming for soccer, 17 will be unified.

As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they’re egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of a 1980s male model. Flailing his arms, he urges them to...

Nightmare completed, another humiliating defeat. 10 goals in 2 game. It will take time to come out from such humiliating defeat for Brazilian fans. But I think when you like something, when you fall to...

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don’t they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

It?s still the first round of district, so there is still a lot of soccer to be played. Teams are trying to position themselves for the second round, and the result of our game Friday...

Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of bitumen, did fans weep in the stands when their team lost?...

But the thing the coaches can’t ignore is she’s so talented with her feet. That’s the great thing about soccer, it takes all shapes and sizes.

She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she can tolerate. She has a child who doesn’t have an identity, and she wants to make her...

Soccer is my life.