Great Soccer Quotes:

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, 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

topic: Soccer, Thinking, Goal, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

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

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Football, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Soccer, Football, Games, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

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

- Diego Maradona

topic: Soccer, Hands, Goal, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

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

- George Best

source: "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

topic: Soccer, World, Salute, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

- Ondino Viera

topic: Soccer, Country, Football, Inspirational Soccer, Great Soccer

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Soccer, Firsts, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer, Liverpool Fans

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

- Ronaldinho

topic: Soccer, Football, People, Playing Football, Playing Soccer

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

topic: Soccer, Kids, Responsibility, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Soccer

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

- Pele

topic: Athlete, Winning, Victory, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Games, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Motivational, Sports, Team, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

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

topic: Motivational, Success, Soccer, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Soccer, Games, Trouble, Referee, Sports Football

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

- Raul Lopez

topic: Football, Mistake, Athlete, Motivational Soccer, Good Athlete

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Soccer, Thinking, Champion, Inspirational Soccer, Special One

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

- George Holyoake

topic: Believe, Atheism, Soccer Player, Deceiving Yourself, Preventive War

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

- Pele

topic: Inspirational, Guitar, Enthusiasm, Vibrate, Motivational Soccer

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Soccer, Team, Winning, Inspirational Soccer, Great Soccer

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

- Jonathan Woodgate

topic: Soccer, Home, Years, Footy, Great Soccer

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

- Berti Vogts

topic: Soccer, Water, Swim, Motivational Soccer, Accusers

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

topic: Soccer, Football, Player, Soccer Player, Liverpool Fans

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

- Bill Shankly

source: "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

topic: Soccer, Football, Simple, Liverpool Fc, Football Game

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Soccer, Player, Gains, Soccer Player, Liverpool Fans

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

- Mike Royko

topic: Soccer, Sports, Baseball, Indoor Plumbing, Tennis Courts

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

- Pele

topic: Soccer, Believe, Player, Soccer Player, Great Soccer