#soccer

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#because #career #carolina #come #degree

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

— Drew Carey

#games #i #retired #soccer #thought

What we are missing over here is the life of soccer. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#life #missing #over #soccer

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#soccer #experience

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#especially #game #level #players #proven

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#bring #cosmos #country #deep #excited

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#attention #audiences #care #entire #fundamentally

If you've never come across Soccer Saturday, imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to describe a performance to punters stuck outside the Big Top. You will still be nowhere close to the absurcist drama that unfolds for six straight hours each Saturday on Sky Sports 1 ↗

— Esquire Magazine

#imagination

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#also #because #bit #breaks #complete

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#indian #leagues #set #soccer #up