Quotes on Soccer

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

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.

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

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

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

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.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.