Inspirational Soccer Quotes

• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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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 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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• The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

  Phil Woosnam

  Soccer, Football, Moving

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  Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Strong

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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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• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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

  Mia Hamm

  Inspiring, Soccer, Football

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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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• I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

  Jose Mourinho

  Strong, Team, Fluidity

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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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• You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Soccer, Sports, Horse

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• Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

  Alan Shearer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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• In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Years, Opponents

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• Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• 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

  Soccer, Latin, Team

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• 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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