Soccer Football Quotes - Page 2

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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• 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

  Soccer, Thinking, Goal

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• Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

  Ondino Viera

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Football

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, People

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

  Ian Rush

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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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

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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  Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Simple

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, People, Trying

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

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Years, Mind

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

  Arsene Wenger

  Beautiful, Football, Team

  2002 In The Times, 28 Dec.

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

  Lee Hendrie

  Soccer, Football, Ankles

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• Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

  Jonathan Woodgate

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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