Famous Soccer Quotes

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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

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

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

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

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death...it is much, much more important than that. -Bill Shankley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.-Anson Dorrance

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

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 Shankley

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

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

I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring.-Nick Hornby

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

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

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.-Mia Hamm

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

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