Soccer Quotes - Page 11

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Football, Team, Opposites

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

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• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Sports, Football, Boys

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• I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Hope, Water, Said

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• I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

  Lauren Holiday

  Team, Passion, Boys

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympian Lauren Cheney". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.

  Lauren Holiday

  Girl, Sports, Dream

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympian Lauren Cheney". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  Rafael Nadal

  Morning, Tennis, Bed

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• Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Winning, Player

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Life And Love, Sweat

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

  John Bishop

  Sports, Football, Optimistic

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• It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

  Roberto Baggio

  Sports, Football, Player

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• Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

  Rinus Michels

  Sports, Football, War

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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

  Sports, Football, Player

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• If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Funny, Football, T Shirt

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• Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

  Pele

  Successful, Player, Skills

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• Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

  Thomas Muller

  Dream, Sacrifice, Reality

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

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• We are really the victims of our own problems

  Jimmy Greaves

  Funny Soccer, Problem, Victim

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• It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

  Ian Rush

  Football, Hero, Player

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• True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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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

  Football, Thinking, Champion

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

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• I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Dream, Inspirational Sports, Wake Up

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• Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Player, Thinking

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

  Alex Ferguson

  Philosophy, Team, Home

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• I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

  George Best

  Drunk, Giving, Champagne

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• He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Play, Long

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