Soccer player Quotes

The secret is to believe in your dreams;

in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself.

I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

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

Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.

I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols.

If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear.

I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance.

He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

I have never been concerned about winning the Ballon d'Or or being the best player in the world. The best player is already here and that's Messi. And now I can see him from close up and help him.

For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

One thing I’ve learned through all the ups and downs is that if you’re doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they’re on your side, you’re doing something right.

Barca is more than a club and a great team and I want to contribute to Messi staying the best for many years.

Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him.

There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.

The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you're going to be able to persevere through anything.

This moment,which we are living right now will pass too. We have to enjoy, enjoy all that we can.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.

Some goalkeepers are really sexy with their feet.

I have a little sexiness with my feet, but I don't like to bring it out.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

I don't even know who Joey Barton is.

Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

The way I've been brought up to is take critiques and turn them into positives in my game.

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup.

Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout.

Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer.

Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face.

So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!

There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there.

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.

No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history.

I know about the rules but this should not be a red card for the keeper.

Arsenal was punished enough with the penalty.

Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

.. because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

The president requested me to restore order in the national team.

I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.

If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.