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
My heroes were always soccer players. — Ronaldinho
El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly. — Antoine Griezmann
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. — Johan Cruyff
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon. — Al McGuire
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. — Tom Landry
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. — Gary Lineker
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
My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach. — Kevin Durant
Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium. — Johan Cruijff
Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Short Soccer Coach Quotes
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parasheghian
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. — Mark Rippetoe
My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found — Rinus Michels
To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life. — Eunhyuk
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do. — Bum Phillips
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay. — Ann Coulter
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from. — Bobby Knight
Soccer Coach Image Quotes
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
Soccer Team Quotes
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills
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. — Dennis Bergkamp
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one." — Carli Lloyd
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
A coach is someone who can give correction without resentment.
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back — Tony Adams
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
Soccer Quotes
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
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
Keep working even when no one is watching. — Alex Morgan
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet. — Zinedine Zidane
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. — Ronaldinho
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else. — Abby Wambach
Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten. — Thomas Muller
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere. — Arsene Wenger
Soccer Training Quotes
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
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. — Bob Paisley
I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them. — Mikel Arteta
Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing. — Harry Kane
I try to work to improve myself every day, and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions. — Kylian Mbappe
We move on to tomorrow, review the match, train well and start to think about Man City. — Mikel Arteta
I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training – I’m always guided by that desire to conquer, to win. — Kylian Mbappe
That lad must have been born offside. — Alex Ferguson
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities. — Nemanja Vidic
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 Abraham
Soccer Player Quotes
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
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
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
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
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
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
I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists – they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them. — Mikel Arteta
Soccer Football Quotes
Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial. — Diego Maradona
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. — Arsene Wenger
What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker. — Peter Drury
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. — Arjen Robben
If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me. — Cesc Fabregas
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
Soccer Motivation Quotes
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. — Ronaldinho
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
More than my dream it was my family’s dream that I play for India and they always supported me. — Smriti Mandhana
I promise that we are going to win the league again. — John W. Henry
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
When I think of how special Anfield is and how special Liverpool is, everywhere around the world everyone is talking about Liverpool, it is because of the fan base. — John W. Henry
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
Every day is important, every act is important. The secret is that the people, players and staff have to believe what you are trying to deliver. — Mikel Arteta
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job. — Mikel Arteta
Football Coach Quotes
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty. — Fielding H. Yost
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach. — Bill Belichick
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
Soccer Game Quotes
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
The game changed. We changed it, and we’re here to play the new one. — Charles Hoskinson
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. — Ron White
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
Those friendly games are not pointless. They enable us to go forward. — Didier Deschamps
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that. — Didier Deschamps
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. — Brandi Chastain
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game. — Valentina Shevchenko
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is. — Johan Cruijff
Soccer Mom Quotes
I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment. — Brandi Chastain
I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom. — Vinnie Paz
I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. — Neil Diamond
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. — Ann Coulter
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. — Freddy Adu
If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure. — Christopher West
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. — Anne Northup
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level. — Ann Coulter
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both. — Michelle Obama
I always just had a dream to spend more time with my father. But at the end of the day, my mom was the one who kept me in soccer,who kept me doing my homework, who provided me with meals on a daily basis. — Hope Solo
Sports Coach Quotes
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — Tom Landry
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
After an international break you do not know if they are in the frame of mind to come back and do the things necessary to win this league. — Mikel Arteta
It isn’t hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have. — Harry Kane
Life as a coach is full of frustrations. — Didier Deschamps
I get up in the morning and I go to practice like everyone else. — Kylian Mbappe
I am professional. If I am on the field, I am 100 per cent focused on that. Off the field, I switch off. — Smriti Mandhana
Football is my passion. — Didier Deschamps
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta
Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13. — Antoine Griezmann
I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport. — Ellyse Perry
Every time I enter the field, it’s like, ‘Smriti, you have to score.’ And I love that responsibility. — Smriti Mandhana
Energy is everything, in life, in football and in sports. — Mikel Arteta
I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I’ve had and the lessons I’ve learned about myself and about life. — Ellyse Perry
At the highest level, if you don’t have a solid defensive base, you can’t get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No. — Didier Deschamps
I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope. — Brendan Rodgers
Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science. — John W. Henry
I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra. — Smriti Mandhana
When I’m close to the penalty area, that’s where I feel more comfortable. — Antoine Griezmann
When the team is doing well, individual performances don’t count. — Smriti Mandhana
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. — Harry Sinden
I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice. — Kawhi Leonard
In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work. — Smriti Mandhana
I want to become a legend, like Pele or Maradona. Or more than them. — Paul Pogba
I’m going to do whatever it takes for me and my team to be successful. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I’ll do that. — Harry Kane
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
In the ’90s, I never socialised with other players. — Stephen Hendry
In my playing career, Anfield was the only ground where I had a feeling of being stuck. — Mikel Arteta
Nine or ten, I like playing both. I like to score goals, and I feel in both positions I can score goals. — Harry Kane
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