Soccer Game Quotes:

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

- Brandi Chastain

topic: Soccer, Mom, Games, Soccer Game

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

- Neil Diamond

topic: Soccer, Mom, Dad, Mom And Dad, Little League

I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

- Mark Viduka

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

- Johan Cruijff

topic: Soccer, Winning, Games, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

- Stanley Rous

source: 1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

topic: Soccer, Sports, Football, Motivational Soccer, Football Field

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Games, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

- Bill Shankly

source: "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

topic: Soccer, Football, Simple, Liverpool Fc, Football Game

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Sports, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Soccer, Games, Trouble, Referee, Sports Football

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

- Samuel Eto'o

topic: Soccer, Player, Games, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

- George Orwell

topic: Soccer, Football, Fighting, Soccer Player, Soccer Ball

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Soccer, Football, Games, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

- Ron White

source: "Blue Collar TV". Comedy TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2004–2006.

topic: Soccer, Believe, Games, Halftime, Soccer Game

God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of "quality time" that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent's faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren't at their soccer games or didn't take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.

- David Shibley

topic: Soccer, Loyalty, Jesus, Consuming Love, Quality Time

This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.

- Justin Raimondo

topic: Soccer, Team, Taken, Soccer Game

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

- Bill Simmons

source: "B.S. Report", grantland.com. March 1, 2012.

topic: Soccer, Daughter, Pride, Supportive Parents, Soccer Game

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

- Abby Wambach

source: "Abby Wambach discusses her marriage, sport and future". Interview with Jeff Di Veronica, www.usatoday.com. March 30, 2014.

topic: Soccer, Games, Want, Sprint, Soccer Game

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

- Woody Allen

source: "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

topic: Soccer, Thinking, Games, Soccer Game

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

- Luke Pasqualino

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Soccer, Fighting, Games, Rehearsing, Soccer Game

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

- Drew Carey

topic: Soccer, Travel, Games, Soccer Game

They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.

- Immortal Technique

topic: Soccer, Country, Daughter, Military Presence, Soccer Game

The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they chose that it's 90 minutes, not less and not more. But the choices are the responsibility of the filmmaker. You have to choose to join the story at an arbitrary point, and you leave it at an arbitrary point.

- Abbas Kiarostami

source: "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

topic: Soccer, Responsibility, Games, Soccer Game

If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.

- Jim Anderson

topic: Soccer, Spiritual, Daughter, Spiritual Warfare, Soccer Game

I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Soccer, Kids, School, Soccer Game

You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Soccer, Party, Sacrifice, Soccer Game

At a youth soccer game you'll probably hear parents and coaches on the sidelines yelling, 'Pass the ball! Pass the ball!' ... When we continually tell our young players to pass the ball, we're not allowing them to develop their full potential, especially those who have the ability to take their opponents on and beat them one-on-one. As a result, we run the risk of diminishing a player's artistry and potential.

- Tony DiCicco

topic: Soccer, Running, Player, One On One, Soccer Game

When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

- Claudio Reyna

topic: Soccer, Mirrors, Games, Videogame, Soccer Game

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

- Brandi Chastain

topic: Soccer, Fun, Weekend, Fun Family, North America

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

- Tadeusz Borowski

source: Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

topic: Soccer, Games, Two, Behind My Back, Soccer Game

A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

- Matt Groening

topic: Soccer, Dream, Children, Favorite Foods, Short People

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

- Michelle Obama

source: Michelle Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

topic: Soccer, Mom, Grandma, Date Night, Grandma's House

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 one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

- Kathy Griffin

topic: Soccer, Cheerleading, Team, Brownies, Unprecedented

If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).

- Tom O'Brien

topic: Soccer, Games, Watches, Soccer Game