Soccer Player Quotes - Page 3

• The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Sports, Life And Love

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• Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspiring, Soccer, Football

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

  Mia Hamm

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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

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• 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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• Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Funny, Soccer

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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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• You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Beautiful, Soccer

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

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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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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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

  George Best

  Soccer, Missing, Ireland And The Irish

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• As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Soccer, Father

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• Really, off days for soccer players are just recovery days. You're trying to get off your feet as much as possible.

  Becky Sauerbrunn

  Soccer, Recovery, Player

  "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

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• The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

  Pele

  Soccer, Father, Party

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• I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• My dad had a couple of professions in mind for me. He either wanted me to be a doctor because he said male doctors make a lot of money, or he wanted me to be a soccer player. Myself, I thought that I would really love being a pilot for the Air Force. I really wanted to be a part of the Air Force.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Soccer, Couple, Dad

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Soccer, Teacher, Art

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• Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

  Xavi

  Movie, Summer, Soccer

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• I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

  Tim Howard

  Soccer, Player, Levels

  "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with…Tim Howard". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 7, 2014.

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• You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Soccer, Team, Player

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• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Player, Choices

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Player

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