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
I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school. – Megyn Kelly
Soccer is the most difficult business that we’re in, because one day you’re on top, and the next day you’re very low. – Emilio Azcarraga Jean
People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they’re wrong. – David Beckham
What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players – the way they have to make a play out of nothing. – George Vecsey
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying. – Pele
Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network’s schedule. – George Vecsey
I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn’t want a child-star model, so I didn’t get into modeling until I was 14. – Emily Ratajkowski
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity. – Pete Wentz
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life. – P. J. O’Rourke
I used to go to my kids’ soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn’t screaming, because I’d have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. – Neil Diamond
If you’re a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I’m watching, you know, Netherlands soccer. – Michael Keaton
I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I’ll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch. – Milos Raonic
My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate. – Jeff Garlin
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. – Lewis Gordon Pugh
Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool. – Michelle Obama
Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those. – Luis Suarez
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.
I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I’d miss it too much if I wasn’t involved. – Katie Taylor
I’ve written about superheroes. I’ve written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being chased by madmen. I’ve written about spies and demon-hunting soccer moms. I’ve created an entire world that centers around a paranormal judicial system. – Julie Kenner
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
All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it. – Lisa Vidal
I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool. – Michelle Obama
I didn’t know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women’s team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team. – Marta
I tried softball and soccer. I just didn’t take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well. – Liana Liberato
I’ve never met anybody who says they don’t like the World Cup. If you’re a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports. – Landon Donovan