Soccer Football Quotes

• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Soccer, Football, Philosophical

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• I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

  Barry Venison

  Soccer, Football, Intellectual

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• You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

  Peter Shilton

  Motivational, Soccer, Believe

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

  Raul Lopez

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• International football is the continuation of war by other means.

  George Orwell

  Soccer, Football, War

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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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• I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

  Mark Viduka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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 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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• 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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• We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

  Bobby Robson

  Funny, Soccer, Stupid

  "Faded FA Cup glimmering again" by Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. January 4, 2013.

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• One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

  Alan Shearer

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

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

  H. L. Hunt

  Funny, Soccer, Believe

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