Motivational Soccer Quotes:

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

- Bobby Charlton

source: 1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

topic: Soccer, Player, People, 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

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

- Bo Jackson

source: Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Football Coach

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Soccer, Individual Performance

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Soccer, Football, Team, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

- Johan Cruijff

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

- Arnold Palmer

source: FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Adversity, Inspirational Soccer, Inspirational Athlete

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

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

- Mia Hamm

topic: Inspiring, Soccer, Volleyball, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Football, Softball Team

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Sports, Football, Winning, 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

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

- Nelson Rodrigues

topic: Football, Balls, Blindness, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

- Dean Smith

topic: Inspiring, Basketball, Sports, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

- Lionel Messi

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Fighting, Motivational Soccer, Reach For Your Dreams

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

- Les Ferdinand

topic: Soccer, Football, Surprise, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer

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

source: Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

topic: Soccer, Men, Two, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

- Barry Venison

topic: Soccer, Boots, Firsts, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Beautiful, Soccer, Stars, Facility, Motivational Soccer

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

- Samuel Eto'o

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

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

- Bobby Robson

source: "Faded FA Cup glimmering again" by Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. January 4, 2013.

topic: Funny, Silly, Underestimate, Soccer Player, Newcastle

I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

- Mark Viduka

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

- Cristiano Ronaldo

topic: Soccer, Dream, Inspirational Sports, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Coaches, Just Give Up

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Soccer, Athlete, Endurance, Motivational Soccer

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Girl, Football, Boys, Motivational Soccer, Soccer Football

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

- Pele

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

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

- Arrigo Sacchi

topic: Sports, Horse, Jockeys, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer, Inspirational Soccer, Olympic Games

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

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

- Mike Ditka

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational History

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

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

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

- George Orwell

topic: Football, War, Mean, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

- Johan Cruijff

topic: Soccer, Winning, Games, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: Soccer, Team, Party, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

- Stanley Rous

source: 1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

topic: Soccer, Sports, Football, Motivational Soccer, Football Field

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

- Vinnie Jones

topic: Funny, Football, Winning, Soccer Player, Motivational Soccer

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

- Pele

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

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

- Mia Hamm

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

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

- Phil Woosnam

topic: Soccer, Moving, Simple, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

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 Abraham

topic: Soccer, Moving, Simple, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

- Landon Donovan

topic: Soccer, Moving, Goal, Motivational Soccer, Playing Soccer

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

- Mia Hamm

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

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

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Softball, Sports, Motivation, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

source: Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

topic: Team, Champion, Individual, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer