#soccer

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. ↗

— Roger Federer

#blame #enjoyed #goalkeeper #had #i

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

— Drew Carey

#games #i #retired #soccer #thought

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

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms. ↗

— Al Kaline

#arms #athletes #baseball #basketball #better

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

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. ↗

— Anne Northup

#country #i #i think #moms #perspective

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#group #i #i am #little #soccer

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#after #athletes #dedicated #helping #hip

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#cup #end #enjoy #event #experience

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#basketball #chance #gold #gold medal #hockey