Soccer Quotes

• SOCCER QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  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


• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.
  Briana Scurry


• 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


• Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
  Bill Shankly


• 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


• If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
  Mia Hamm


• 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


• 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


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


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


• 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


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


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


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


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


• 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


• 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


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


• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
  Roy Keane


• 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


• 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


• 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




Thank you for passing by my soccer quotes. As the world cup comes up I hope these soccer quotes get you in the mood.




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