Unforgetable Soccer Quotes

Soccer quotes - amusing and inspiring quotations from the wonderful world of football. Did they really say that!

I don’t believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Roy Keane

If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
Mia Hamm

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Unknown

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.
Elbert Hubbard


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Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Bobby Charlton

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele

Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.
Hugo Sanchez

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.
Eric Cantona

Funny Soccer Quotes


Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Phil Woosnam

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean Paul Sartre

I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
Ronaldo

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
Maradona

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
Anthony Burgess

We lost because we didn't win.
Ronaldo


To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
J.B. Priestley


The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football
Sandy Strang

General Soccer Quotes

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Queen Elizabeth II

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Ronaldo

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
Ronaldo


Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
George Best


The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
George Graham


At a football club, there's a holy trinity the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
Bill Shankly


In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
Luis Suarez


Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Ondino Viera

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