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

  Mia Hamm

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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

  Steve Lomas

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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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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• Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Winning, Games

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

  David Beckham

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  "Together by Richard Sennett - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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