Soccer Ball Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Children

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

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• Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Men, Play

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• Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Moving, Player

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• If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Balls, Soccer Love

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• 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

  Soccer, Men, Two

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

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Fighting

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Simple

  "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

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• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Team, Party

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

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Soccer, Football, Balls

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• Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

  David Acfield

  Funny, Soccer, Air

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• Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

  Ian Darke

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

  Jim Courier

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Soccer, Football, Eggs

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• I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

  Steven Page

  Soccer, Sports, Hate

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• I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

  Lauren Holiday

  Soccer, Team, Passion

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympian Lauren Cheney". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.

  Gary Sinise

  Soccer, Baby, Children

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• In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

  John M. Gottman

  Marriage, Soccer, People

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• In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Soccer, Teaching, Cutting

  "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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• My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

  Freddy Adu

  Soccer, Mom, Doors

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