Soccer Player Quotes

• 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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• I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

  Pele

  Soccer, Believe, Player

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright.

  Robbie Earle

  Soccer, Term, Ifs

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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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• Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

  Vinnie Jones

  Funny, Motivational, Soccer

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• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

  Bryan Robson

  Soccer, Football, Week

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• The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Soccer, Opening Ceremony, Funny Soccer

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• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Respect, Football

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

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

  Will Ferrell

  Soccer, Player, Comedian

  "Duncan Riddle - America's Adult Soccer Ambassador". Interview with Diane Scavuzzo, goalnation.com. October 19, 2015.

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• I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

  Ugo Ehiogu

  Soccer, Football, Footy

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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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• 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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• Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

  Steve Lomas

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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

  Barry Venison

  Soccer, Football, Intellectual

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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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