Soccer Quotes - Page 5

• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Player, Gains

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• Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

  Dave Barry

  Player, Games, Suffering

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• I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

  Ronaldinho

  Football, People, Chance

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• Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

  Ebbe Skovdahl

  Football, Ideas, Giving

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• In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

  Luis Suarez

  Latin, Team, Government

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  Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

  George Best

  Motivational, World, Salute

  "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.

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• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  Briana Scurry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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• No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Practice, Training

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• I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Men, Play, Shoes

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

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• I do not play football, I score goals.

  Dada Maravilha

  Football, Play, Goal

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• We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

  Eric Cantona

  Beach, Winning, Years

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• I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

  Brandi Chastain

  Want, Fields, Soccer Love

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• I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

  Roger Federer

  Player, Tennis, Goalkeepers

  CNN interview, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

  Howard Hughes

  Way, Compromise, Consent

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• When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Gymnastics, Always Trying, Ballet

  "Chloë Moretz: 'I'm not cussing and killing people - I'm normal'". Interview With Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Sports, Player, Natural

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Glasses, Wow, Fields

  Interview with Lauren Green, bleacherreport.com. May 6, 2010.

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• At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Fitness, Running, Workout

  Interview with Kim Tranell, www.seventeen.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  Lorrie Fair

  Player, Practice, Aggravation

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• Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

  Ray Hudson

  War, Men, Nuclear

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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Baseball, Lonely

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• When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.

  Lawrie McMenemy

  Kids, Sportsmanship, Should

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• Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.

  David Beckham

  Catholic, Needs, Serious

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