Soccer Is My Life Quotes:

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

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

- Derek Johnstone

topic: Soccer, Brain, Footballer, Soccer Player, Soccer Is My Life

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

- George Orwell

topic: Soccer, Football, Fighting, Soccer Player, Soccer Ball

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 was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

- Marcelo Balboa

topic: Soccer, Kids, Taught, Soccer Is My Life

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

topic: Soccer, Two, Goal, Progress In Life, Scoring Goals

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

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

- George Best

source: "Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.

topic: Drinking, Alcohol, Minutes, Soccer Is My Life

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

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

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

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Mia Hamm

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

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

- Mia Hamm

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

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

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

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

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

topic: Soccer, Latin, Team, 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

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

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

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

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

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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