3221+ soccer quotes 2025

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We must have had 99 percent of the game. it was the other three percent that cost us the match.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.

I always want more. Whether it’s a goal, or winning a game, I’m never satisfied.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism quote

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

To me, soccer is so much more than a ball and two goals; it connects people from all of the corners of the world.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

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

Albert Camus

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.

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

Some people think football [soccer]is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.

Gary Lineker

Football is the ballet of the masses.

Football is all about sentiment; if it weren’t then we’d all support Manchester United.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population doesn’t go to football matches but that doesn’t make football any less important.

Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can’t win.

Soccer is not just about scoring goals. It’s about winning.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a lifetime.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

My father used to say, ‘If you want to know the artist, look at the art’. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.

I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.

Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted.

Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar mustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of bitumen, did fans weep in the stands when their team lost? No. They limited their responses to a muttered ‘blast’ or a muted ‘hurrah’ before going home to smoke a pipe and lean on the mantelpiece.

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

Nick Hornby

inspirational soccer quotes 2025

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

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

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

Josef Sepp Herberger

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

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mom. 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.

The first 90 minutes are the most important.

Five days shalt thou labor, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favorite soccer team.

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him on the playground. But I don’t think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

I don’t believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

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.

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, and that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

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

Zinedine Zidane

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.

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!

Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.

top soccer quotes 2025

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

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.

Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.'

It is often said in soccer that a country’s particular style of play bears the fingerprints of its social and political nature. Thus the Germans are unfailingly characterized as resourceful and organized, while Brazilians are said to dance with the ball to the free-form, samba rhythms of Carnival.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits, and get on with trying to win.