Soccer quotes for coaches, parents, players, and fans can be fun and inspiring to read. Maybe you’re a coach trying to find the right words to inspire your soccer team.
These quotes can serve as great motivation to fans, athletes, and coaches of all ages. Even if the beautiful game isn’t your favorite sport, you’ll get a kick out of these sayings.
Excellent Soccer Quotations for Teams
1.) Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.
Unknown
2.) Whatever brings you down will eventually make you stronger.
Alex Morgan
3.) Raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
Mia Hamm
4.) I don’t believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is the result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Roy Maurice Keane
5.) Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting rather than recreation.
Unknown
6.) I get a kick out of this game.
Unknown
7.) Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they’d stop fighting for it.
Unknown
8.) Five days shalt thou labor, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.
Anthony Burgess
9.) To watch people push themselves further than they think they can, it’s a beautiful thing.
Abby Wambach
10.) Excuses are like losses. Everybody has them except the champions.
Alex Morgan
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11.) Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
Billy Connolly
12.) I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
Mitch Hedberg
13.) Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I thought you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can’t do a backflip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.
Mitch Hedberg
14.) That was in the past. We’re in the future now.
David Beckham
15.) It’s impossible to make a bad pass when you don’t pass.
Unknown
16.) 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
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Motivational
17.) Soccer is not about justice. It’s a drama, and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.
Pete Davies
18.) Practice as you’ve never won; perform as you’ve never lost.
Unknown
19.) 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 Donavon
20.) The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
Anson Dorrance
21.) Those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t interfere with those who are doing it.
Billy Eberhart
22.) To the aesthete, it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined, it is a religion.
Paul Gardner
23.) The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown, and getting at him should be almost impossible. It’s the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
George Graham
24.) Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm
25.) If you’re not sweating, you’re not working hard enough.
Alex Morgan
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Inspirational Sayings
26.) I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm
27.) I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.
Sydney Leroux
28.) Many people say I’m the best women’s soccer player in the world. I don’t think so. And because of that, someday, I just might be.
Mia Hamm
29.) A goalkeeper can’t win a game; she can only save it.
Unknown
30.) Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
Zinedine Zidane
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31.) Football is the opera of the people.
Stafford Heginbotham
32.) Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane
33.) All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
34.) I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.
Eric Morecambe
35.) In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision.
Lionel Messi
36.) Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.
Andrea Pirlo
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Goal!
37.) If we score, we might win. If they never score, we can’t lose.
Christie Rampone
38.) Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around, and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.
Jim Murray
39.) We all fail; the key is knowing how to rise.
Hope Solo
40.) Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pelé
41.) 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
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42.) 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
43.) If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.
Kyle Rote, Jr.
44.) Life is like soccer. You need goals.
Unknown
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Youth Futbol
45.) 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 hydrogen and napalm bomb, a football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Stanley Rous
46.) In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean-Paul Sartre
47.) 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
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48.) Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly
49.) 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
50.) Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Ondino Viera
51.) If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can’t swim.
Berti Vogts
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World Cup
52.) 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 Woosnam
53.) 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
54.) The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
55.) The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
Martin Jacques
56.) I will be a World Cup winner.
Neymar
Best Soccer Quotes
57.) You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Lionel Messi
58.) The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself.
Neymar
59.) I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
Eduardo Galeano
60.) When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
61.) Every single day I woke up and commit to myself to become a better player.Â
Mia Hamm
62.) You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
Lionel Messi
Team Spirit
63.) I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team; I defer to it and sacrifice for it because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
64.) To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Remember, only teams succeed.
Jose Mourinho
65.) Our country has been through difficult experiences in terms of unity. Sport — football in particular — has the power to help that. It is a special feeling.
Gareth Southgate
66.) If you’re in the penalty area and don’t know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we’ll discuss the options later.
Bob Paisley
67.) Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players. They should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger
Short Soccer Quotes
68.) Maybe they hate me because I’m too good.
Cristiano Ronaldo
69.) It is my conviction that there are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.
Cristiano Ronaldo
70.) I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
Wayne Rooney
71.) I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
Lee Hendrie
72.) A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
Pelé
Love of The Game
73.) I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
Cristiano Ronaldo
74.) What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
Lionel Messi
75.) There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.
Neymar
76.) When good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.
Eduardo Galeano
77.) I don’t have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It’s something I love doing.
David Beckham
78.) Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.
Gary Lineker
79.) In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There’s something greater than the result, more lasting — a legacy.Â
Xavi
Inspirational Soccer Quotes
80.) The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.
Mia Hamm
81.) I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.
Sydney Leroux
82.) I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans but also to feel satisfied with myself.
Cristiano Ronaldo
83.) I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
Zinedine Zidane
84.) Good soccer players need not be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases, skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.
Eduardo Galeano
85.) Don’t be scared to be ambitious. It’s not a humiliation to have a high target and to fail. The real humiliation is to have a target and not to give everything to reach it.
Arsene Wenger
86.) All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
87.) You owe it to yourself to be the best you can be.
Christian Pulisic
88.) For sports players who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
Gary Neville
89.) You can overcome anything if, and only if, you love something enough.
Lionel Messi
90.) I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.
Abby Wambach
Hard Work Quotes
92.) I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.
Pep Guardiola
93.) Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Arsene Wenger
94.) I always felt that our triumphs were an expression of the constant application of discipline. Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success.
Sir Alex Ferguson
95.) My coach said I run like a girl, and I said if he ran a little faster he could too.
Mia Hamm
96.) Life is like soccer, you need goals.
Unknown
97.) Everything is practice.
Pele
98.) Play with you heart not just your feet.
Unknown
99.) I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.
David Beckham
100.) Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
Keep working even when no one is watching.
Alex Morgan
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