Soccer Quotes

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  Everything is practice.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Athlete, Wrestling

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• Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Unifying, Activity

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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, Football

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• 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

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• It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

  Ian Rush

  Football, Hero, Player

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• Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

  Alex Morgan

  Passion, Way, Fields

  "Alex Morgan talks Olympics, Colbert, and Swimsuit Edition". Interview with Mike Foss, content.usatoday.com. July 2, 2012.

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  What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Play, Playing Soccer

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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

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• Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

  Pele

  Successful, Player, Skills

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Football, Team, Opposites

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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• In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Football, Balls, Blindness

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• It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Land, Life Is Like

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

  Desmond Tutu

  Teamwork, Orchestra, Goalkeepers

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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• The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

  Eric Cantona

  Balls, Soccer Love, Soccer Ball

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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

  Sports, Life And Love, Sweat

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• If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

  Stanley Rous

  Sports, Football, Men

  1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

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• Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

  Thomas Muller

  Dream, Sacrifice, Reality

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

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• The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sports, Football, Important

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• Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Hard Work, Thinking

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• All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

  Freddy Adu

  Fun, Creativity, Hey

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Sports, Football, Player

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

  Tony Adams

  Teamwork, Sports, Football

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• Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

  Johan Cruijff

  Sometimes, Happens

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

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• At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

  Arsene Wenger

  Confidence, Winning, Player

  "Home » Blogs » matthew.robinson's blog » How do world class coaches and the worlds best... How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

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