Soccer Is My Life Quotes

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

David Beckham

Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

Marcelo Balboa

Soccer, Kids, Taught

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Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Eric Cantona

Soccer, Two, Goal

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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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He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

Derek Johnstone

Soccer, Brain, Footballer

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In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

George Best

Drinking, Alcohol, Minutes

"Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations". Book by Ned Sherrin, 2008.

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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 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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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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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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The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Diego Maradona

Motivational, Soccer, Hands

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Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

George Best

Motivational, Soccer, World

"George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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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

Motivational, Beautiful, Soccer

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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Bill Shankly

Funny, Soccer, Sarcastic

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

Mia Hamm

Motivational, Soccer, Football

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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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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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If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

Mia Hamm

Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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

Mia Hamm

Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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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