#soccer

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#around #band #bars #cheering #cup

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun. ↗

— Ali Larter

#armies #burn #cooking #dance #fun

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ↗

— David Mamet

#american #american football #ball #east #football

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

— Steve Nash

#father #friends #i #played #player

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#chef #creates #cup #excitement #extreme

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

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

Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#come #countries #deserves #fast #finally