Motivational Soccer Quotes - Page 2

• A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Athlete, Endurance

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Soccer, Football

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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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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• You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Soccer, Sports, Horse

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• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, 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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• 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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• International football is the continuation of war by other means.

  George Orwell

  Soccer, Football, War

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• Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Winning, Games

  "'You play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you': Johan Cruyff in quotes", www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2016.

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• In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Team, Party

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• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  1952 Quoted in Bryon ButlerTheOfficial History of the Football Association (1986).

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• Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

  Vinnie Jones

  Funny, Motivational, Soccer

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

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• 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, Football, Moving

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• 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

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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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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• 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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• Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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