Soccer is one of the renowned global games in the world. Almost every other country has participated in significant tournaments of soccer! Even now, some countries have started introducing soccer for recreational purposes too. It’s a kind of sport that is believed to be a tough one because, in soccer, easy things are not counted; it’s only the difficult ones that matter.
This game has gifted us great and legendary players like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mia Hamm, David Beckham, and so on from all across the globe, which doesn’t win our hearts in the field but in real life too.
These famous sports personalities have become inspiring for numerous aspiring players and fans, and today in our column have gathered their idea of living life with positivity and sportsmanship. Check out our collection of Inspirational Soccer Quotes that will motivate you to get better on your favorite sport.
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
Nelson Rodrigues
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane
I like linebackers. I collect ’em. You can’t have too many good ones.
Bill Parcells
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.
Roy Keane
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
I’d rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
Johnny Giles
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
Sepp Herberger
It’s better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.
Roberto Baggio
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
David Ginola
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill Shankly
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly
Football is the ballet of the masses.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.
Hugo Sanchez
Football’s not just about scoring goals – it’s about winning.
Alan Shearer
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.
Eric Cantona
If you can’t stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen.
Terry Venables
Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they’re better than us.
Alex Ferguson
If we played like that every week, we wouldn’t be so inconsistent.
Bryan Robson
I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
Les Ferdinand
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
George Orwell
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Thierry Henry
The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm
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
Anger infests Lee Bowyer’s simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.
Henry Winter
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
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.
Neymar
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
Alex Ferguson
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
Eric Cantona
I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.
Rod Stewart
All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.
Brandi Chastain
Inspirational Soccer Quotes
It’s quite hard to find the history of soccer, and no one will ever know when it was invented. Some historians believe that football has made its first appearance back in the 10th century A.D.
Well, all we know is that it has gained great popularity in recent generations. As an outcome, we are bestowed with some supremely talented players and coaches from all over the world.
You will not believe it, but almost half of the world’s population is indeed known to be a soccer fan! Isn’t it amazing? There are numerous sports which we have seen popular in specific regions only like baseball and basketball is loved in America, or badminton in Korea and Denmark.
But soccer is considered a classic sport all around the world. So to honor this legendary sport, we have curated Greatest Quotes and Sayings on Soccer.
I have to keep working hard and playing well because I don’t like to be second or third: they’re the worst places to be. You would be proud, of course, because it means you’re on the way, but you want to finish first.
Paul Pogba
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
The players are writing a beautiful page of French football history.
Didier Deschamps
I always want more. Whether it’s a goal, or winning a game, I’m never satisfied.
Lionel Messi
Only in sport can you live through emotions like this. We knew how to put them in difficulty, we made them run, we prepared well.
Samuel Umtiti
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.
Roy Maurice Keane
Tactically, the coach did a perfect job yesterday, so we know we will be fully prepared.
Antoine Griezmann
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
I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at major tournaments.
Luka Modric
When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
I hope the players benefit from my experience but this is their final. It is something they have worked for and they will be able to enjoy it.
Didier Deschamps
People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I’m the strongest dude you’re ever going to meet. Because I remember sitting in the dark with my brother and my mom, saying our prayers, and thinking, believing, knowing … it’s [success] going to happen.
Romelu Lukaku
It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.
Vahid
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
I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.
Brandi Denise Chastain
Especially the English journalists and pundits from television, they underestimated Croatia. That was a huge mistake. All their words, we took, we were reading and we said: ‘Ok, we will see who will be tired.’ They should be more humble and respect the opponents. We dominated the game physically and mentally, in all aspects. We should have killed the game before extra-time.
Luka Modric
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
Gary Neville
All goalscorers go on droughts. It is how you cope with that. And it is not just about scoring, it is about what you bring to the team, bringing others into play and getting assists.
Harry Kane
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
The smartest thing I did is I never gave up.
Ivan Rakitic
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
Everything in my life has happened very early, personally and professionally. I’m always learning: I have to.
Neymar Jr.
When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I kept my promise to myself for a while. But then some days I’d come home from school and find my mum crying. So I finally told her one day, “Mum, it’s gonna change. You’ll see. I’m going to play football for Anderlecht, and it’s going to happen soon. We’ll be good. You won’t have to worry anymore.
Romelu Lukaku
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.
John Anthony Burgess Wilson
Since the beginning of the competition he has got it right, and I hope it will be the same for the final.
Antoine Griezmann
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
The questions around us principally come down to character; the essential ability to withstand events that go against you.
Gareth Southgate
I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.
Hope Amelia Solo
I have to be scoring goals and playing well to get in the team because, if not, others who are in better form will play.
Diego Costa
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’m going to remember to have fun this time. Life is too short for the stress and the drama.
Romelu Lukaku
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.
Roy Maurice Keane
Outside football, I just love life, you know. We’re lucky to play football, to have all this body. Everyone’s watching us. You see how many people, they come and watch the game. It’s unbelievable, you see how many people they come. They shout your name and just enjoy life.
Paul Pogba
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
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.
Neymar Jr.
It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.
Ronaldinho
If you weren’t with me when I had nothing, then you can’t really understand me,
Romelu Lukaku
When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
Take the risk, or lose the chance.
Eden Hazard
I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
Cristiano Ronaldo
I never tried to hide the fact that my only goal is to be the best.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Pele
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously, I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are.
Harry Kane
Soccer Lovers Quotes
Call it soccer or football; the love for this sport is not going to get any less among its fans. Widely, soccer is famous as the most beautiful game and an epitome of athleticism. To become a professional soccer player, you need to have some impressive technical skills, high IQ level, and obviously immense talent to stand out at the premier leagues.
Soccer is an amazing classic and iconic sport, which is praised by all age groups. Also, we have so many fantastic players that are preached as gems in their countries and worldwide as well.
They have marked history with their amazing scores and wacky statements that define how fun soccer can bring in anyone’s life. So is our collection of Classic Soccer Quotes! Readout these handpicked motivating quotes on soccer that will let you the high power of this game.
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in 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.
Gareth Bale
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.
Paul Pogba
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
Nelson Falcão Rodrigues
That’s the mentality – don’t just play it, win it.
Luis Suarez
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Leonel Messi
I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
Wayne Rooney
I want to win and always have done since I was small. I don’t know if it’s in my blood or just my personality.
Diego Costa
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
But it’s cool. Those people weren’t with me when we were pouring water in our cereal.
Romelu Lukaku
You don’t have to have been a horse to be a jockey.
Arrigo Sacchi
I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.
Luis Suarez
If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.
Kyle Rote, Jr.
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
Leonel Messi
The first 90 minutes are the most important.
Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson
Like Zidane, I want to inspire the kids.
Eden Hazard
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Lionel Messi
It is a unique and special feeling when the fans sing my name. It’s incredible when I hear the song, and it’s touching that there are people who connect with you.
Philippe Coutinho
A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.
Arsène Wenger
Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can’t win.
Unknown Author
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.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).
Albert Camus
I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.
Roderick David “Rod” Stewart
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Pelé
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
Serge Schmemann
I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
Wayne Rooney
I do not play football, I score goals.
Dario José dos Santos
The first 90 minutes are the most important.
Sir Robert William
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff
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
The thing about football…the important thing about football…is that it is not just about football.
Sir Terence David John
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
Zinedine Zidane
Every defeat is a victory in itself.
Francisco Maturana García
Soccer is not just about scoring goals. It’s about winning.
Unknown Author
Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.
Gary Lineker
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
In Europe, it’s different – you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.
Thomas Dooley
It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.
Ronaldinho
We must have had 99 percent of the game. it was the other three percent that cost us the match.
Ruud Gullit
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
Germaine Greer
It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.
George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah
When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
I always want more. Whether it’s a goal, or winning a game, I’m never satisfied.
Lionel Messi
I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.
Brandi Denise Chastain
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
Lewis William Gordon Pugh
If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.
Kyle Rote, Jr.
I never thought I’d play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
Cobi Jones
Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits, and get on with trying to win.
Lionel Messi
If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.
Ethan Z
I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm
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.
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
A game that requires a great team effort, just like other sports, soccer is one of the encouraging and boosting competitions which is popular among significant continents. In our collection of soccer quotes, we have mentioned the impact of this beautiful game on people’s lives. We hope you have had a happy reading!