My heroes were always soccer players. — Ronaldinho
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
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. — Johan Cruyff
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
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
I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi. — Kobe Bryant
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
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. — J. J. Watt
I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football. — Diego Maradona
I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star. — Rod Stewart
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
My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful! — Neymar
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
Short Soccer Player Quotes
Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. — Roger Milla
I’ve always said the World Cup is a dream for any player. — Kylian Mbappe
To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life. — Eunhyuk
Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho) — Eden Hazard
Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper. — Joe Hart
Soccer Player Image Quotes
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Good Soccer Player Quotes
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
It’s always good to play with big players, you know. — Paul Pogba
I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video. — Harry Redknapp
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father. — Pele
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics. — Helenio Herrera
The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it. — Graeme Le Saux
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.
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. — Vidal Sassoon
Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving. — Roy Keane
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. — Ian McShane
I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field. — Pat McAfee
Soccer Quotes
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
Keep working even when no one is watching. — Alex Morgan
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
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere. — Arsene Wenger
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 Game 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
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
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
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
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
Soccer Coach Quotes
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 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
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
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
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 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
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
He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it. — Martin Tyler
Great Soccer 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
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
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
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
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
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
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
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. — Landon Donovan
I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann
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
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. — Claudio Reyna
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science. — John W. Henry
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win — Vinnie Jones
I’ll give everything I have to be one of the best players in La Liga. — Antoine Griezmann
I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock. — Barry Venison
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 want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I’ll do that. — Harry Kane
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
I’m sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person. — Paul Pogba
I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. — Ugo Ehiogu
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. — Dan Birdwell
The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment. — Maynard Webb
Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. — Lorrie Fair
You play with 10 players, you don’t play alone. — Kylian Mbappe
The world is my lobster. — Keith O'Neill
I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager. — Harry Kane
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