Soccer Quotes - Page 12

• At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

  Arsene Wenger

  Confidence, Winning, Player

  "Home » Blogs » matthew.robinson's blog » How do world class coaches and the worlds best... How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

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• The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

  Eric Cantona

  Balls, Soccer Love, Soccer Ball

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• Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Sports, Football, Player

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

  David Beckham

  Silly, Thinking, Different

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• Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

  Johan Cruijff

  Sometimes, Happens

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

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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

  Teamwork, Sports, Football

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• It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Land, Life Is Like

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• Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Unifying, Activity

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• The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sports, Football, Important

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• I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Children, Believe

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Goal, Want

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

  Desmond Tutu

  Teamwork, Orchestra, Goalkeepers

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

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• To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Country, Mean

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• A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

  Dave Eggers

  Football, Cheating, Lying

  "The True Story of American Soccer" by Dave Eggers, www.slate.com. June 9, 2010.

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• Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

  Ann Coulter

  Decay, Growing, Moral

  "America’s Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer". www.anncoulter.com. June 25, 2014.

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• I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

  Alex Morgan

  Running, Pace, Movement

  "Hope Solo, Alex Morgan And Abby Wambach Excited To Run Chicago Marathon". Interview With Jordan Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Division, Able

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• If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Planets, One Thing

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• Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

  Carl Sagan

  Football, Hunting, Analysis

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.471, Ballantine Books

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• Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Football, Media, Years

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• I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Monday, Morning

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• Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

  Bryan Robson

  Football, Winning, Media

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• People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

  Roy Keane

  Football, Nice, Winning

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• You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Country, Team

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