Soccer Quotes - Page 4

• A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Running, Play

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• I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.

  Pablo Francisco

  Mother, Baby, Fall

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

  Peter Shilton

  Way, Censorship, Backwards

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• I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all.

  Landon Donovan

  Practice, Games, Play

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• I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Sports, Years, Bored

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• You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

  Danny McBride

  Teacher, Character, Men

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

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• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

  Alex Ferguson

  Teamwork, Canada, France

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• Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Culture, Council

  1996 In The Independent, 28 Jun.

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  Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Football, Strong, Hate

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• When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

  Will Ferrell

  Player, Comedian, Would Be

  "Duncan Riddle - America's Adult Soccer Ambassador". Interview with Diane Scavuzzo, goalnation.com. October 19, 2015.

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• Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Football, Games, Wonderful

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Country, Heart

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• We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

  Alan Shearer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

  George Orwell

  Football, Fighting, Games

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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, Football

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

  George Best

  Sports, Football, Drinking

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

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Games, Anfield

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

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• When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

  Freddy Adu

  Moving, Play, Creative

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• I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

  Stuart Pearce

  Football, Tunnels, Intellectual

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• Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

  Arsene Wenger

  Player, Expression, Skills

  "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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• Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Peace, Moving

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• Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

  Steve Lomas

  Funny, Team, Play

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• I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

  Alan Shearer

  Funny, Football, Footy

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  It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

  John Aldridge

  Football, Player, Sun

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