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
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport. — Serge Schmemann
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. — Johan Cruyff
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
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
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. — Gary Lineker
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. — Bill Shankly
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins. — Johan Cruijff
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
Short Soccer Game Quotes
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life. — Eunhyuk
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho
This ain't a football game, we do this every day. — Earl Weaver
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. — Ron White
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay. — Ann Coulter
My heroes were always soccer players. — Ronaldinho
Sometimes in football you have to score goals. — Thierry Henry
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
Soccer Game Image Quotes
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
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
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
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
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
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
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
Soccer Team Quotes
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
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
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
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu
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
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
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
Soccer Football 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
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
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 Ball Quotes
If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies. — Daniel Tosh
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. — John M. Gottman
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano
Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it. — Ian Darke
Because I’m fairly big, I like to use my body. So I’ll control the ball, even when there’s a player on me, and then I’ll pass. — Paul Pogba
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed. — Eric Cantona
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. — Roy Keane
I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer. — Hope Solo
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
Great Soccer Quotes
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
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning. — John Piper
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
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. — Diego Maradona
In Britain, we don’t appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you. — Stephen Hendry
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to. — Stephen Hendry
I want to become a legend, like Pele or Maradona. Or more than them. — Paul Pogba
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is. — Johan Cruijff
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
It was a beautiful moment at the end to win a game of this stature. — Mikel Arteta
Soccer Training Quotes
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
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
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
The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. — Phil Woosnam
Soccer Coach Quotes
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 girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
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
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
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
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
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — 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
Soccer Love Quotes
For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that’s been the pinnacle for me with cricket. — Ellyse Perry
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. — Jessica Szohr
Every time I enter the field, it’s like, ‘Smriti, you have to score.’ And I love that responsibility. — Smriti Mandhana
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
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
That’s why we love football: it’s not about the money or about the hairstyle or the dancing. We want to see beautiful goals, great tackles, fair play, and all this stuff. — Paul Pogba
I would say, in a year, I spend maybe half of that playing FIFA. I love it that much. — KSI
I played basketball when I was little because it was fun for me. It still is now. I just love it. I have a passion for it. — Kawhi Leonard
I’d love to be captain of Tottenham and hopefully England as well. — Harry Kane
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. — Eric Idle
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
The game changed. We changed it, and we’re here to play the new one. — Charles Hoskinson
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
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. — Roger Milla
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. — Stuart Pearce
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. — Dan Birdwell
There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It’s not bad to stay a little immature. — Kylian Mbappe
The most important thing is to be a midfielder first, not scoring goals. You have to make the game, make an assist for the team, and if you can score, it’s a plus for the team. — Paul Pogba
I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager. — Harry Kane
We did not play a huge game but we showed mental quality. And we scored four goals anyway. They deserved to win. — Didier Deschamps
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field. — Ronaldinho
People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That’s the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people. — Kawhi Leonard
I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team. — Kathy Griffin
How marvelous, it’s a young team who are on the top of the world. Some are champions at the age of 19. — Didier Deschamps
Real Madrid is a club where you have to go when you are mature and at the top of your game. — Kylian Mbappe
You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games. — Abby Wambach
Coming to a team like the Spurs, you’re automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way. — Kawhi Leonard
Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all. — Roy Keane
One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf. — Ron Atkinson
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. — Oscar Wilde
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. — Stanley Rous
The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game. — Samuel Eto'o
Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is — Garth Crooks
Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball. — Hristo Stoichkov
The crowd in Atlanta was amazing the last time we played there. They were enthusiastic, engaged in the game and were happy to be there. They are excited about soccer. — Kelley O'Hara
Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians. — Johan Cruijff
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