Great Soccer Quotes

• I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

  Ronaldo

  Soccer, Thinking, Goal

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• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Soccer, Football, Games

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

  Diego Maradona

  Motivational, Soccer, Hands

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

  George Best

  Motivational, Soccer, World

  "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

  Ondino Viera

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Sarcastic

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, People

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• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• 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

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

  Raul Lopez

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "They said it: Jose Mourinho". www.fifa.com. May 27, 2016.

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• I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

  George Holyoake

  Soccer, Believe, Atheism

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• Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Athlete

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• To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Team

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• Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

  Jonathan Woodgate

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

  Berti Vogts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• 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, Player

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Simple

  "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

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• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

  Mike Royko

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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