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

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

  Les Ferdinand

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Funny, Soccer

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• I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

  George Holyoake

  Soccer, Believe, Atheism

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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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• 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 vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Sports, Life And Love

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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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• Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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

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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 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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