Soccer Player Quotes - Page 2

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

  Les Ferdinand

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

  George Holyoake

  Soccer, Believe, Atheism

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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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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• 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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• 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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• All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

  Mitchell Thomas

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

  Alan Shearer

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

  Hugo Sanchez

  Soccer, Football, Should

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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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• Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

  Alan Shearer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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