Top soccer Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of soccer quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Hesketh Pearson
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.
- Hesketh Pearson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Cristiano Ronaldo
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Collection: Soccer
Image of Cristiano Ronaldo
When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Collection: Soccer
Image of Joe Namath
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
- Joe Namath
Collection: Soccer
Image of Ian Rush
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.
- Ian Rush
Collection: Soccer
Image of Mike Royko
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.
- Mike Royko
Collection: Soccer
Image of Hope Solo
If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.
- Hope Solo
Collection: Soccer
Image of Hope Solo
I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.
- Hope Solo
Collection: Soccer
Image of Tadeusz Borowski
Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
- Tadeusz Borowski
Collection: Soccer
Image of Carol Bellamy
Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.
- Carol Bellamy
Collection: Soccer
Image of Lionel Messi
Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.
- Lionel Messi
Collection: Soccer
Image of Lionel Messi
We know that we are close to making history.
- Lionel Messi
Collection: Soccer
Image of David Beckham
You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.
- David Beckham
Collection: Soccer
Image of David Beckham
One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.
- David Beckham
Collection: Soccer
Image of Freddy Adu
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of John Motson
The goals made such a difference to the way this game went
- John Motson
Collection: Soccer
Image of John Motson
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was
- John Motson
Collection: Soccer
Image of John Motson
The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup
- John Motson
Collection: Soccer
Image of John Motson
Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off
- John Motson
Collection: Soccer
Image of George Weah
It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.
- George Weah
Collection: Soccer
Image of Julian Sands
When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.
- Julian Sands
Collection: Soccer
Image of Michel Patini
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
- Michel Patini
Collection: Soccer
Image of Arsene Wenger
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Soccer
Image of Arsene Wenger
Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Soccer
Image of Arsene Wenger
The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Soccer
Image of Arsene Wenger
We don't sign superstars, we make them.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Soccer
Image of Arsene Wenger
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Soccer
Image of Arsene Wenger
A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
- Arsene Wenger
Collection: Soccer
Image of Patrick Wilson
I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.
- Patrick Wilson
Collection: Soccer
Image of Desmond Morris
The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.
- Desmond Morris
Collection: Soccer
Image of Tiffeny Milbrett
Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.
- Tiffeny Milbrett
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jose Mourinho
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jose Mourinho
Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.
- Jose Mourinho
Collection: Soccer
Image of Jose Mourinho
We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
- Jose Mourinho
Collection: Soccer
Image of Stephen Hunt
Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.
- Stephen Hunt
Collection: Soccer
Image of Dennis Bergkamp
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.
- Dennis Bergkamp
Collection: Soccer
Image of Gary Neville
I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day we've got to be ruthless and we are in the business of winning for us. If they had scored three or four, nobody would have said do you feel sorry for Mark Bosnich? We don't feel sorry for Craig Forrest.
- Gary Neville
Collection: Soccer
Image of George Best
I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.
- George Best
Collection: Soccer
Image of George Best
Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.
- George Best
Collection: Soccer
Image of Matthew Morrison
All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president—I even dated the homecoming queen.
- Matthew Morrison
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bill Shankly
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
Collection: Soccer
Image of Bill Shankly
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
- Bill Shankly
Collection: Soccer
Image of Zinedine Zidane
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
- Zinedine Zidane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Zinedine Zidane
I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.
- Zinedine Zidane
Collection: Soccer
Image of Gordon Strachan
It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.
- Gordon Strachan
Collection: Soccer
Image of Gordon Strachan
If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.
- Gordon Strachan
Collection: Soccer
Image of Gordon Strachan
Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.
- Gordon Strachan
Collection: Soccer
Image of Gordon Strachan
I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.
- Gordon Strachan
Collection: Soccer
Image of Ethan Zohn
If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.
- Ethan Zohn
Collection: Soccer
Image of Brett Hull
Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.
- Brett Hull
Collection: Soccer