Soccer Quotes - Page 2

• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

  Pele

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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• You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

  Gerard Houllier

  Team, Years, Finishing

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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

  Sports, Football, Moving

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Football, Night, Thinking

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• The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

  Desmond Morris

  Lying, Past, Roots

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• They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal

  Juan Roman Riquelme

  Football, Team, Player

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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, Games, Mind

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Jealous, Champions League

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• Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

  Steven Gerrard

  Stay Strong, Games, Careers

  "Sven's samurai". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2002.

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

  Johan Cruijff

  Winning, Games, Can't Win

  "'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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• I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

  Les Ferdinand

  Funny, Football, Surprise

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• A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Winning, Way

  Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil ShawThe Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

  Alex Morgan

  Passion, Way, Fields

  "Alex Morgan talks Olympics, Colbert, and Swimsuit Edition". Interview with Mike Foss, content.usatoday.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Life, Football, Struggle

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.

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• Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

  Arsene Wenger

  Talent, Enough

  "Arsene Wenger's reached a magic age" by Tom Hopkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 18, 2009.

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• I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

  Ian Rush

  Funny, Football, Country

  'It Was Like Living in a Foreign Country' by Lee Honeyball, www.theguardian.com. February 06, 2005.

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• The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

  Arsene Wenger

  Real, Character, Player

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• Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

  Henry Winter

  Football, Simple, Player

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• You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

  Peter Shilton

  Motivational, Believe, Blow

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• If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

  Berti Vogts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

  Ugo Ehiogu

  Football, Footy, I Can

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• We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

  Steven Gerrard

  Football, Expectations, Fans

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

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• My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

  Freddy Adu

  Mom, Doors, Play

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• You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Country, Winning, World

  "Haile Gebrselassie bows to will of his people for one last hurrah". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

  Terry Pratchett

  Football, Play, People

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