Quotes of Soccer - somelinesforyou

“ I was playing with a soccer team in Spain until I broke my foot-badly. That's when I started seriously getting into acting. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball. ”

- Larry Bird

“ Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. ”

- Martina Hingis

“ Baseball is dull only to dull minds. ”

- Red Barber

“ It felt more like a soccer match out there. She is not very big built and when she hits that forehand, you think 'Whoa! Where did that come from?' But she needs to be more consistent. ”

- Martina Hingis

“ My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball. ”

- Steve Nash

“ The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ”

- Phil Woosnam

“ Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. ”

- Bobby Charlton

“ Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. ”

- Ann Coulter

“ I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question. ”

- Lamar Hunt

“ The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching. ”

- Anson Dorrance

“ I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star. ”

- Rod Stewart

“ Ask yourself this question: If aspirin were the leading cause of death on college campuses, do you think chancellors, presidents, and trustees would allow aspirin commercials on basketball and football telecasts? They wouldn't, not for a minute. ”

- Dean Smith

“ This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it? It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted. ”

- George W. Bush

“ I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ”

- Angela Carter

“ Most of us are in favor of tolerance, but it is difficult to tolerate the intolerant, and impossible to tolerate the intolerable. ”

- Evan Esar

“ No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball. ”

- Connie Mack

“ In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed. ”

- Julian Barnes

“ Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners. ”

- Robert Orben

“ We had a football team out there. ”

- Wayne Bennett

“ A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't. ”

- Jack Dempsey

“ I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ I got hurt playing football. ”

- Mark Wahlberg

“ We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. ”

- Lauren Hutton

“ Can we just talk baseball? Please? ”

- Barry Bonds

“ Frankford was set up the same way as Green Bay, about 1899,... The Frankford Athletic Association ran football, baseball and cricket teams, up until 1931. ”

- Brian Harris

“ We're the best team in baseball. But not by much. ”

- Sparky Anderson

“ I don't know anything about baseball. ”

- Sean Connery

“ I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. ”

- Lucille Ball
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