#soccer

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

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

— Steve Nash

#father #friends #i #played #player

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#anything #definitely #friends #games #gym

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan. ↗

— Clive Owen

#big #fan #i #i am #liverpool

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#apply #basketball #develop #invite #outs

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#freshman #freshman year #high #high school #i

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. ↗

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

#idol #inspiration #soccer #inspirational

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#decided #experience #got #highest #highest level

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#like #other #plus #soccer #social