Soccer Quotes - Page 5

• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Player, Gains

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• Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

  Dave Barry

  Player, Games, Suffering

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• I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

  Ronaldinho

  Football, People, Chance

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• Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

  Ebbe Skovdahl

  Football, Ideas, Giving

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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

  Latin, Team, Government

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  Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

  George Best

  Motivational, World, Salute

  "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  Briana Scurry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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• No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Practice, Training

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• I do not play football, I score goals.

  Dada Maravilha

  Football, Play, Goal

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• I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Men, Play, Shoes

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

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• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  Lorrie Fair

  Player, Practice, Aggravation

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Sports, Player, Natural

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

  Eric Cantona

  Beach, Winning, Years

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• Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

  George Best

  Football, Cristiano Ronaldo, Player

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• I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

  Brandi Chastain

  Want, Fields, Soccer Love

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• He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Games, People, Wells

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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Baseball, Lonely

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• It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

  Derek Rae

  Football, Commentators

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• Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

  Bob Paisley

  Years, Mind, Bad Times

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• When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.

  Lawrie McMenemy

  Kids, Sportsmanship, Should

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• On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

  Ron Atkinson

  Night

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• Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

  Ray Hudson

  War, Men, Nuclear

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• When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Gymnastics, Always Trying, Ballet

  "Chloë Moretz: 'I'm not cussing and killing people - I'm normal'". Interview With Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

  Javier Clemente

  Football, Player, Scotland

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