soccer quotes

soccer quotes

Soccer quotes

  • “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end, the Germans always win.” – Gary Lineker
  • “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly
  • “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.” – Sepp Herberger
  • “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.” – Ronaldinho
  • “Football is the ballet of the masses.” – Dmitri Shostakovich
  • “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
  • “In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There’s something greater than the result, more lasting – a legacy.” – Xavi Hernandez
  • “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “Football is not just a game, it’s a lifestyle.” – Anonymous
  • “It’s not just about the money, money, money. We don’t need your money, money, money. We just wanna make the world dance. Forget about the price tag.” – Jessie J (referring to football’s passion)
  • “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
  • “I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans but also to feel satisfied with myself.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “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 Nazario
  • “Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn’t matter if you are rich, or poor, or whatever. It is one nationality, open to everyone.” – Eusebio
  • “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 Woosnam
  • “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé
  • “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
  • “The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.” – Anson Dorrance
  • “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant
  • “In football, the most important source of motivation is simple. It’s the desire to master and dominate. To impose your will upon your opponents, so they know they stand no chance.” – Vince Lombardi Jr.
  • “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pelé
  • “You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.” – Bill Shankly
  • “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
  • “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.” – Les Brown
  • “It’s not about the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” – Archie Griffin
  • “I don’t have time for hobbies. I’m here to play football.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “It’s not the team with the best players that win. It’s the players with the best team that wins.” – Unknown
  • “Success is no accident. It’s hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé
  • “If you are not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” – John Wooden
  • “Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

Famous Soccer Quotes

  • “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end, the Germans always win.” – Gary Lineker
  • “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly
  • “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” – George Best
  • “I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans but also to feel satisfied with myself.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
  • “When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.” – Diego Maradona
  • “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.” – Sepp Herberger
  • “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “Football is the ballet of the masses.” – Dmitri Shostakovich
  • “The first 90 minutes are the most important.” – Sir Bobby Robson
  • “It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. Be yourself, no matter what they say.” – Sting (inspired by Eric Cantona)
  • “When you play football, it’s not about the country or the city, it’s about the club.” – Andrés Iniesta
  • “There is no pressure when you’re making a dream come true.” – Neymar Jr.
  • “Football is freedom.” – Zinedine Zidane
  • “I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

Motivational Soccer Quotes

  • “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé
  • “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
  • “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” – Joe Paterno
  • “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
  • “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
  • “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
  • “To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
  • “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
  • “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.” – Les Brown

Short Soccer Quotes

  • “Keep calm and play soccer.”
  • “Eat, sleep, play soccer, repeat.”
  • “Dream big, work hard, stay focused.”
  • Soccer is life with the volume up.”
  • “Chase the ball, not the fame.”
  • “One team, one dream.”
  • “Sweat now, shine later.”
  • “Life is better when you play soccer.”
  • “Play with your heart, win with your feet.”
  • “Every day is a soccer day.”
  • “In soccer, the goals are the punctuation marks of the game.”
  • “Born to play soccer.”
  • “Work hard, stay humble.”
  • “Dribble, shoot, score, repeat.”
  • “Soccer is not just a game; it’s an attitude.”
  • “Play like you’re in first, train like you’re in second.”
  • “Soccer is the poetry of motion.”
  • “Fear less, play more.”
  • “Kicking it since [year of birth].”
  • “Soccer: where legends are born.”

Funny Soccer Quotes

  • “Soccer is simple; it’s just hard to play it in a complicated way.” – Johan Cruyff
  • “I am the number one fan of the team that scores the most goals.” – Paul Merson
  • “I couldn’t become a footballer. I’m so fast, I would collide with myself.” – Albert Einstein
  • “I’d rather be a football manager. That way, I can lose every week and still get paid.” – George Best
  • “In football, the only thing I am afraid of is that one day I will meet [Lionel] Messi off the pitch, and he will be a normal person.” – Arda Turan
  • “I’m not a perfectionist, but people say I am.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” – Bill Shankly
  • “It’s like the Mafia. Once you’re in – your in. There’s no getting out.” – Gordon Strachan
  • “When you are 4-0 up at half-time, you shouldn’t lose 7-1.” – Lawrie McMenemy
  • “I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.” – Muhammad Ali
  • “I am not a defensive player. People keep saying I missed the boat for coaching, but I didn’t miss any boat. I’m on my yacht, having a good life.” – Eric Cantona
  • “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no talent.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • “I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.” – Gary Neville
  • “If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.” – Kyle Rote Jr.
  • “I’d rather have a hole in the squad than an asshole.” – Sir Alex Ferguson

Cute Soccer Quotes

  • “You kick my heart into the goal every time.”
  • “Our love is like a perfect pass – always on target.”
  • “You’re the goal I never knew I was aiming for.”
  • “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite goal.”
  • “You make my heart race faster than a penalty shootout.”
  • “Our love is like a free-kick – unstoppable.”
  • “You’re the MVP of my heart.”
  • “Life is better when we play on the same team.”
  • “Our love is a winning streak that never ends.”
  • “You’re the reason I believe in fairytales – and hat-tricks.”
  • “You score the winning goal in the game of my heart every day.”
  • “You’re my favorite player in this game called life.”
  • “Our love is like extra time – never enough.”
  • “You’re the soccer to my Saturday.”
  • “You’re my favorite kickoff to the day.”
  • “You’re my MVP – Most Valuable Partner.”
  • “Our love is a perfect pitch.”
  • “Together, we’re a winning team.”
  • “You’re the cleats to my soccer field of dreams.”
  • “You’re the halftime talk my heart needs.”

Messi Soccer Quotes

  • “The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.” – Lionel Messi
  • “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
  • “I start early, and I stay late, day after day after day.” – Lionel Messi
  • “I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.” – Lionel Messi
  • “I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.” – Lionel Messi
  • “The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instincts.” – Lionel Messi
  • “I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at the moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.” – Lionel Messi
  • “Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer, I would willingly play for nothing.” – Lionel Messi
  • “The only thing that matters is playing. Regardless of what happens today, I will always be in football.” – Lionel Messi
  • “You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.” – Lionel Messi

Inspirational World Cup Soccer Quotes

  • “The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.” – Pelé
  • “In football, the object is to win, fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win.” – Vince Lombardi
  • “The World Cup is a tournament for strong teams and the rest.” – Grzegorz Lato
  • “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
  • “Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.” – Arsène Wenger
  • “It’s not the team with the best players that win. It’s the players with the best team that wins.” – Unknown
  • “The World Cup is a very complicated tournament – six games, seven if you make it to the final – and maybe if you lose one game you’re out, even if you’re the best.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
  • “You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.” – Lionel Messi
  • “Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Og Mandino
  • “World Cups are like girlfriends and wives: they only let you down when it really matters.” – Diego Maradona
  • “There are moments in football that are exclusively poetic: these are the moments of the ‘goal’.” – Camus
  • “A World Cup is important because it’s the last achievement in a footballer’s career. It’s the summit.” – Zinedine Zidane
  • “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end, the Germans always win.” – Gary Lineker
  • “The World Cup is the biggest event in football and one of the biggest events in sport.” – Neymar Jr.
  • “You must play with the soul in order to be a true footballer.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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