Soccer Quotes

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  Everything is practice.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Athlete, Wrestling

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• Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  33 Copy quote

• 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, Sports

  33 Copy quote

• 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, Football

  502 Copy quote

• Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

  Franklin Foer

  Buddhism, Community, Fabric

  46 Copy quote

• Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Play, Giving

  19 Copy quote
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  What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Play, Playing Soccer

  83 Copy quote

• Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Simple, Play

  13 Copy quote

• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Sports, Confidence, Courage

  113 Copy quote

• Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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

  108 Copy quote

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• What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Great Day, Needs

  66 Copy quote

• If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

  Bob Paisley

  Sports, Football, Player

  84 Copy quote

• Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

  Johan Cruijff

  Mistake, Effort, Huge

  12 Copy quote

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

  Samuel Eto'o

  Player, Games, Important

  16 Copy quote

• I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

  Steven Gerrard

  Football, Player, Slap

  30 Copy quote

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Giving Up, Father, Taught Us

  40 Copy quote

• 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, Football, Moving

  15 Copy quote

• Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

  Fabio Capello

  Miracle, Sometimes, Be Confident

  16 Copy quote

• Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Fighting, Simple, Practice

  14 Copy quote

• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Running, Nice, Exercise

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• We've had some great players at this club in my 20 years, but he's up with the best.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Years

  11 Copy quote

• The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

  Phil Woosnam

  Football, Moving, Simple

  14 Copy quote

• I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Team, Moving

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.1, Nation Books

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Football, Winning

  22 Copy quote

• When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

  Shay Given

  Football, Player, Goal

  11 Copy quote