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
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.
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.
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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.
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.
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.
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.
Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.
I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.
I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.
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