Soccer Football Quotes

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.

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.

Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".

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.

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.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

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.

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves.

Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

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.

It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

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

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

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.

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

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer.

We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

Johan was more than just a great soccer player.

He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism.

It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.