#soccer

I love soccer; I want to be on the field. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#i #i love #love #soccer #want

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#environment #feeling #hear #i #kids

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#coming #ever #i #i think #kids

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#does #field #i #i think #lot

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

#australia #china #earth #ever #every

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#come #had #i #me #moms

I read somewhere that spiders can spin silk strong enough to hold the weight of a thousand trucks. I tried to imagine those lines of silver, thinner than air, stronger than steel. Sometimes I think that a hundred webs, invisible gossamers, connect Gracie and me. They coat our bodies, tie our limbs together, link our hearts. They can stretch across cities, countries – even anger. Unbreakable. I felt them that first time I watched her play soccer. She needed to win so badly. I watched a new Gracie crack out of her cocoon that day. Grey, moth-like, she seemed covered in a dust that let her take to the air. Fly. They’re beautiful things, moths, with their dark patterned wings hooking on wind to push them forward. You have to be careful with them, though. Brush them just lightly, and they can’t fly anymore. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#gracie-faltrain #mother-daughter #mum-daughter #soccer #anger

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#futbol #hamm #mia #mia-hamm #shooting

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies. ↗

— Simon Kuper

#sports #iraq

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more. ↗

— Brian McBride

#because #between #came #deciding #down