Soccer Football Quotes:

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Vince Lombardi

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

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

- Desmond Morris

topic: Soccer, Lying, Past, Primeval, Soccer Football

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

- Alan Shearer

topic: Sports, Football, Winning, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Player

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

- Nelson Rodrigues

topic: Football, Balls, Blindness, Inspirational Soccer, 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

Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

- Steve Lomas

topic: Funny, Soccer, Team, Soccer Player, Playing Soccer

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

- Stuart Pearce

topic: Soccer, Tunnels, Ends, Stupid Sports, Footy

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Soccer, Wanted, Wells, Soccer Player, Footy

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

- Ugo Ehiogu

topic: Soccer, Funny Soccer, Soccer Player, Footy, Funny Football

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

- Les Ferdinand

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

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

- David Beckham

source: "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

topic: Funny, Soccer, Football, Soccer Player, Really Stupid

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

- Mitchell Thomas

topic: Soccer, Dots, All That Remains, Soccer Player, Footy

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

- David Beckham

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Sports, Soccer Football, Soccer Is My Life

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

- David Beckham

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Soccer, Ferguson, Footy

Football is the ballet of the masses.

- Dmitri Shostakovich

topic: Football, Ballet, Mass, Inspirational Soccer, Soccer Football

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

- George Orwell

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

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

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've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

- Peter Shilton

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Believe, Soccer Player, Footy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

- Ondino Viera

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

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

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

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

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

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

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

- David Beckham

topic: Inspirational, Football, Parent, Soccer Player, Stupid Sports

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

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

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

- Ian Rush

source: 'It Was Like Living in a Foreign Country' by Lee Honeyball, www.theguardian.com. February 06, 2005.

topic: Funny, Soccer, Football, Big Book, Soccer Player

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

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

- Mia Hamm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

- Johan Cruijff

topic: Football, Simple, Hardest, Playing Football, Hardest Thing

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

- Jose Mourinho

topic: Football, People, Trying, No Pressure, Soccer Football

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

- Gary Lineker

topic: Soccer, Funny Soccer, Footy, Soccer Football

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

- Bob Paisley

topic: Soccer, Years, Mind, Liverpool Fc, Soccer Football

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

- Arsene Wenger

source: 2002 In The Times, 28 Dec.

topic: Beautiful, Football, Team, Gunners, Football Team

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

- Lee Hendrie

topic: Soccer, Ankles, Funny Soccer, Soccer Player, Footy

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