Rabih Alameddine Quotes

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.

When you play football, you have to do a lot of running.

I only try to play good soccer.

The game was different then, when I used to play. The ball ran more than the players and to some extent there was greater technical skill.

Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You're running; you're getting tackled.

Some lads were dribblers, some lads just loved scoring goals, whereas I enjoyed and took pride in practicing my passing and that. That's how it was.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.