Soccer Quotes -Soccer Player and Manager Quotes

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly English soccer manager.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Queen Elizabeth II To Premier League Chairman David Richards, November 2006.
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 Brazilian soccer player.

If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
Mia Hamm American World Cup Soccer champion.

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Ronaldo Brazilian soccer player.

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 Woosnam Welsh soccer player and manager.

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 The Good Companions.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean Paul Sartre French philosopher.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.
Mia Hamm American female soccer player.

I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring.
Nick Hornby Opening sentence from English writer's book Fever Pitch.

The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.
Anson Dorrance American women's soccer coach.

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 English writer.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele Brazilian soccer player, considered possibly world's greatest.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane Irish soccer player and English football club manager.

I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
Ronaldo Brazilian soccer player, after winning 2002 World Cup.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
George Best Northern Ireland soccer player, from his autobiography, The Good, The Bad and the Bubbly.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
Maradona Argentinian soccer player, on goal against England in 1986 World Cup.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde Irish writer.

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 American female soccer player.

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
Henry Blaha
The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
George Graham Scottish soccer player and manager.
Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
Johan Cryuff Dutch soccer player.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Bobby Charlton English soccer player and 1966 World Cup winner.

Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.
Hugo Sanchez Mexican soccer player and coach.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
Anthony Burgess English writer.
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 Spanish soccer player.
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 English soccer manager.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
Bill Shankly English soccer manager.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm American female soccer player.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm American female soccer player. When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
Jose Mourinho Portuguese soccer manager.
We lost because we didn't win.
Ronaldo Brazilian soccer player.
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
Jose Mourinho Portuguese soccer manager.

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Soccer is not just about scoring goals – it’s about winning.

We lost because we didn’t win.

If they are going to win this match, they’re going to have to score a goal.

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

Soccer is the ballet of the masses.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

If you don’t concede any goals you’ll win more games than you lose.

If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.

As long as no-one scored, it was always going to be close.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as a God.

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

Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

A million wouldn’t buy him, and I’d be one of them.

If you don’t believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.

It’s why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two.

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

We didn’t underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

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.

He’s one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

My legs sort of disappeared from nowhere.

The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.

Sometimes in soccer you have to score goals.

Every defeat is a victory in itself.

Soccer is the opera of the people.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

If we played like that every week we wouldn’t be so inconsistent.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Winning doesn’t really matter as long as you win.

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