Soccer Team Quotes

• 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, Teamwork, Orchestra

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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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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• 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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• Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

  Tony Adams

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sports

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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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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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Soccer, Sports

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• In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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• Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

  John Bishop

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

  Lady Gaga

  Soccer, Husband, Team

  "Lady Gaga Wants To Spawn Little Monsters Of Her Own". www.popdust.com. March 18, 2012.

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• In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soccer, Football, Team

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1976). “Theorie des ensembles pratiques”, Verso Books

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• When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Team, School

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• There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.

  Robert Plant

  Soccer, Team, Live Life

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

  Bill Simmons

  Basketball, Soccer, Teamwork

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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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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• She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Soccer, Team, Sky

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

  Johan Bruyneel

  Soccer, Daughter, Jobs

  Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland (2009). “We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Soccer, Team, Eye

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• "By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Inspirational, Basketball, Soccer

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• I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.

  Adam Richman

  Soccer, Team, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Soccer, Dream, Team

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• I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

  Tanc Sade

  Soccer, Real, Team

  Source: collider.com

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