Football Soccer Motivational Quotes

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football. ~ Ondino Viera

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. ~ Lionel Messi

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. ~ J.B. Priestley

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

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. ~ Bobby Robson

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. ~ Stanley Rous

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. ~ Roger Staubach

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. ~ Ugo Ehiogu

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

Sometimes in football you have to score goals. ~ Thierry Henry

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

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best. ~ Alan Shearer

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. ~ Don Shula

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God. ~ Hugo Sanchez

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers. ~ Peter Robinson

Football's all about 90 minutes ~ Glenn Hoddle

The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath. ~ Terry Butcher

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both. ~ Martin McGuinness

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better. ~ Johan Cruijff

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect. ~ Danny McBride

I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport. ~ Jack Kemp

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

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. ~ John Lambie

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Soccer must be played with the heart,not with strength and talent as perceived. ~ ABC

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ~ David Mamet

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd. ~ Johnny Giles

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. ~ Parminder Nagra

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt. ~ Franz Beckenbauer

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer). ~ Albert Camus

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. ~ Hesketh Pearson

The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer. ~ Ron Greenwood

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. ~ Terry Pratchett

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game. ~ Nick Saban

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

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

Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury ~ Jock Brown

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals. ~ Andrew Luck

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games. ~ Gareth Barry

Football is an art players paint with their feet. ~ Maswood Alam Khan

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period. ~ Martin Evans

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. ~ Nelson Rodrigues

International football is the continuation of war by other means. ~ George Orwell

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make. ~ Craig Johnston

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football. ~ Johan Cruijff

The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that? ~ Daniel Finkelstein

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air ~ Jock Brown

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year. ~ Darrell Royal

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful ~ Arsene Wenger

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards. ~ Bill Shankly

Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun. ~ Carl Hagelin

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better. ~ Ron Atkinson

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team. ~ Diego Maradona

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

There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports. ~ Dom Starsia

Football is the ballet of the masses. ~ Dmitri Shostakovich

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation. ~ David Blunkett

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson. ~ Gordon Strachan

As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has. ~ Joe Elliott

Before you start your full day of watching Equestrian Square Dancing, Soccer Balling, Hoop Dreaming, Cricket Batting, Rugby Punching, Volleyball Chopping, Skateboard Falling, Martial Arts Bowing, Bicycle Peddlers, and College Football Hecklers, maybe we have time to learn something
Scientifically. ~ James Hauenstein

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time. ~ Fran Tarkenton

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer. ~ Thomas Dooley

I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck. ~ Olly Murs

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ~ Phil Abraham

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. ~ Rinus Michels

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night. ~ Steven Gerrard

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. ~ Nick Hornby

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. ~ Hope Solo

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange. ~ John Carew

I do not play football, I score goals. ~ Dada Maravilha

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it. ~ Ronaldinho

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. ~ Bo Jackson

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland ~ Mike Ingham

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football. ~ Cesc Fabregas

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world. ~ Kevin Keegan

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player. ~ Pele

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated ~ Wallace Mercer

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~ Woody Hayes

I played soccer growing up, and then high school came along and the football coach came out one day and was like, 'Hey, do you want to kick for us?' I was like, 'Sure, I'll come out and kick one day.' I got moved up to varsity and that's how the story began. ~ Kyle Brindza

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. ~ Eric Cantona

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool. ~ Bill Shankly

Football is the poetry of a motion. ~ Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. ~ Alex Ferguson

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. ~ Bill Shankly

I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists. ~ Arsene Wenger

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball. ~ Ryan Guzman

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium. ~ Milan Kundera

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back ~ Tony Adams

We have demonstrated that we are the best, I'm also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I've heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles. ~ Lionel Messi

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion. ~ Nicky Campbell

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on! ~ Delia Smith

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us. ~ Alex Ferguson

Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. ~ Desmond Morris

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther. ~ David Beckham

Women's football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn't and they don't. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will. ~ Dougie Brimson

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space. ~ Vladimir Putin

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football. ~ Arsene Wenger

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. ~ Ronaldo