Soccer Quotes

In this blog, we have covered the most Catchy Soccer Quotes, Funny Quotes About Soccer, Inspirational Soccer Quotes, Soccer Motivational Quotes, Best Quotes About Soccer, Ronaldo Soccer Quotes, Messi Soccer Quotes, Famous Soccer Quotes and Soccer Player Quotes.

 

Catchy Soccer Quotes

• “Success is not permanent and failure is not fatal.” – Sir Alex Ferguson
• “If you want to see the best, you have to do the best.” – Zinedine Zidane
• “I don’t believe in luck, I only believe in hard work.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
• “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pelé
• “Football is a wonderful game that teaches you how to be a man.” – Zinedine Zidane
• “The reason I success is because I’ve never been afraid to fail.” – David Beckham
• “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – George Best
• “The only way to get the best out of yourself is by playing with freedom.” – Ryan Giggs
• “The most important quality a player can have is not skill, but mentality.” – Jose Mourinho
• “I’d rather fail while trying to be brilliant, than succeed being mediocre.” – Samuel Eto’o.
• “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
• “The secret to success in football is to always give your best and never give up.” – Carles Puyol
• “The greatest reward for a player is to see the joy in the faces of the fans.” – Franz Beckenbauer
• “The key to success in football is to be in the right place at the right time.” – Teddy Sheringham
• “It’s not about the name on the back of the shirt, it’s about the badge on the front.” – Patrick Viera
• “Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.” – Johan Cruyff
• “I’d rather have a player who was 10% talented and 90% professional than the other way round.” – Carlo Ancelotti
• “Football is all about passion, it’s about fighting for the shirt, for your team, and for the supporters.” – Jürgen Klopp
• “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Arjen Robben
• “Confidence is a massive part of success in football. If you believe in yourself and your team, you can achieve anything.” – Rio Ferdinand
• “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.” – Pelé
• “The beautiful game is all about having fun and enjoying yourself. That’s what I try to do every time I step onto the field.” – Ronaldinho
• “Success is not only about winning, but also about learning from your failures and making the necessary adjustments to improve.” – Sergio Ramos
• “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.” – Ron Greenwood
• “I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I think soccer is a great game because it brings people together. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what language you speak, soccer unites everyone.” – Marco Van Basten
• “I always believed in pushing myself to be the best I could be, and that hard work and determination would pay off. I learned that success in football is not just about talent, but also about putting in the effort to improve every day.” – Thierry Henry

 

Funny Quotes About Soccer

• “If you don’t concede goals, you won’t lose games.” – Steve Bruce
• “We have to win every game, we’re Manchester United.” – Sir Alex Ferguson
• “I would have played for free, but they insisted on paying me.” – Tony Gwylim
• “I once tried to steal a ball from Zinedine Zidane, but he ended up stealing my soul.” – Xabi Alonso
• “When I’m on the pitch, I’m not afraid of anyone. But when I watch a horror movie, I hide behind the sofa.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
• “Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.” – Bobby Charlton
• “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
• “When I was younger, I was a bit of a hothead on the pitch. But as you get older, you learn to channel that aggression into your play.” – Wayne Rooney
• “I’m football mad. I’m mad about the game. When I go to sleep, I’m thinking about football. When I wake up, I’m thinking about football.” – David Beckham
• “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly

 

Inspirational Soccer Quotes

• “The field is my happy place.” – Unknown
• “Soccer is where hearts and feet meet.” – Unknown
• “Every kick is an opportunity to make a difference.” – Unknown
• “A goal scored in soccer is like a kiss from someone you love.” – Unknown
• “The best things in life are playing soccer and scoring goals.” – Unknown
• “When you’re playing soccer, for 90 minutes nothing else matters.” – Unknown
• “The best way to prove yourself is to play with pride and passion.” – Tony Adams
• “The only guarantee with football is that there are no guarantees.” – George Best
• “I don’t have any limits. I want to keep going higher and higher.” – Kylian Mbappe
• “Soccer is a game of dreams, where anything is possible and magic can happen.” – Unknown
• “The most important thing in football is the team, not the individual.” – Louis van Gaal
• “I always believed in myself and in my qualities, even when others didn’t.” – Luka Modric
• “Without passion, you don’t have energy, without energy, you have nothing.” – Eric Cantona
• “It’s not about being the best player, it’s about being the right player.” – Gary Neville
• “I’m always trying to improve, to be a better player than I was yesterday.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
• “The taste of success is sweeter when you’ve had a bit of disappointment to overcome.” – Roy Keane
• “You can’t win every game, but you can always learn from your losses and improve.” – Carlo Ancelotti
• “Playing soccer is like being in a fairytale, chasing your dreams and making them come true.” – Unknown
• “Soccer is a game of beauty, where every shot is a masterpiece and every save is a work of art.” – Unknown
• “If you want to play well, you have to play simple, and to play simple, you have to train hard.” – Johan Cruyff
• “I was never the quickest, but I could anticipate where the ball was going and get there first.” – Paul Scholes
• “I have a never-say-die attitude, and I think that’s what separates the good from the great.” – Landon Donavon
• “You have to play with intensity, with courage, and always be thinking about winning.” – Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
• “You can learn a lot from losing. You can learn how to handle disappointment and come back stronger the next time.” – Marco Van Basten
• “You can have all the ability in the world, but if you don’t have the right attitude, you’ll never be a great player.” – Dwight Yorke
• “In soccer, it’s not just about the final score, it’s also about the journey and the memories you create along the way.” – Martin Keown
• “In soccer, every time you step on the field, you have the chance to make a difference, to score a goal and to leave your mark on the world.” – Unknown
• “Football is about joy, about attacking football, about dribbling, about exciting football. That’s what I want to bring to the people.” – Jürgen Klopp
• “If you don’t play with intensity, if you don’t play with passion, if you don’t play with a desire to win, then there’s no point in playing.” – Roy Keane
• “To be a good soccer player, you need to be able to see the game in slow motion. You need to be able to see the spaces and be two steps ahead of your opponents.” – Gerd Muller

 

Soccer Motivational Quotes

• “Everything is practice.”Pelé
• “Soccer is my life.”Ethan Zohn
• “Life is like soccer, you need goals”Anonymous
• “Dream big, because dreams to happen”Alex Morgan
• “Talent without working hard is nothing.” Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet”Ronaldinho
• “I’ve never played for a draw in my life.”Sir Alex Ferguson
• “Football[soccer] is the ballet of the masses.”Dmitri Shostakovich
• “You can’t score a goal if you don’t take a shot”Johann Cruyff
• “If you ask why I play soccer, I ask you why do you breathe.”Anonymous
• “Excuses are like losses. Everyone has them except champions.”Alex Morgan
• “A great soccer player is never content with their performance.”Anonymous
• “In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.”Nelson Rodrigues
• “Practice like you’ve never won; perform like you’ve never lost.”Unknown
• “The person that said winning isn’t everything never won anything.”Mia Hamm
• “Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.”Mia Hamm
• “Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.” Pele
• “Talent may get you on the pitch, but it’s the effort and attitude that will keep you there.”Alex Morgan
• “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
• “I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.”Eduardo Galeano
• “I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.”Brandi Chastain
• “We always try to win until the very end. If we don’t, we congratulate the opponent. That’s what sport is about.”Pep Guardiola
• “If you’re going to be a footballer[soccer player], be a great one. If you’re going to have a dream, dream big.”Sir Alex Ferguson
• “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
• “If you have the ball you must make the field as big as possible. If you don’t have the ball you must make it as small as possible.”Johann Cruyff
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “I don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘born’ soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player.“ Pelé

 

Best Quotes About Soccer

• “It’s hard to beat someone that never gives up”Megan Rapinoe
• “I think sometimes the best training is to rest.”Cristiano Ronaldo
• “Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.”Johan Cruyff
• “What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.”Thomas Dooley
• “You owe it to yourself to be the best you can be.”Christian Pulisic
• “If you’re not sweating, you’re not working hard enough.”Alex Morgan
• “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” Pelé
• “We must always set the bar high — otherwise we do not progress.”Kylian Mbappe
• “I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.”Abby Wambach
• “All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.”Raul Lopez
• “I always want more. Whether it’s a goal, or winning a game, I’m never satisfied.”Lionel Messi
• “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.”Diego Maradona
• “To watch people push themselves further than they think they can, it’s a beautiful thing.”Abby Wambach
• “People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.”David Beckham
• “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.”Zinedine Zidane
• “If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.”Pep Guardiola
• “Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a lifetime.”Unknown Author
• “The mantra I live my life by is: “No excuses. Play like a champion. Shortcuts will get you nowhere.”Kelley O’Hara
• “To me, soccer is so much more than a ball and two goals; it connects people from all of the corners of the world.”Unknown Author
• “I don’t need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I’ll show you what I can do.”Lionel Messi
• “In his life, a man can change wives, political parties, or religions but he cannot change his favorite soccer team.”Eduardo Galeano
• “Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.”P. J. O’Rourke
• “Keep dreaming, even when people laugh at your dreams or tell you that they are impossible to achieve. Keep believing in yourself.”Tobin Heath
• “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
• “I always felt that our triumphs were an expression of the consistent application of discipline. Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success.”Sir Alex Ferguson
• “I see football as an art and all players are artists. If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.”Cristiano Ronaldo
• “On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don’t do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.”Yaya Toure
• “When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it’s pretentious. For me, it’s a challenge — my desire, my dream. I’m not saying I’ll get there, but it’s what I want.”Paul Pogba
• “Leadership must be likable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football[soccer] is about life. You can’t be angry all day.”Vicente del Bosque

 

Ronaldo Soccer Quotes

• “Talent without working hard is nothing.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “Maybe they hate me because I’m too good.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I think sometimes the best training is to rest.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I never tried to hide the fact that my only goal is to be the best” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “It is my conviction that there are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
• “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
• “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

 

Messi Soccer Quotes

• “My ambition is always to get better and better.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “You can overcome anything, if and if only you love something enough.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “You can overcome anything, if, and only if, you love something enough.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “The objective is to win with all the team, personal records are secondary.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits, and get on with trying to win.” ~ Lionel Messi
• “Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.” ~ Lionel Messi

 

Famous Soccer Quotes

• “Keep working even when no one is watching.” Alex Morgan
• “Injuries can never be used as excuses.” Victor Valdes
• “Talent without working hard is nothing.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
• “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet” – Ronaldinho
• “It’s hard to beat somebody that never gives up.” – Megan Rapinoe
• “You owe it to yourself to be the best you can be.” -Christian Pulisic
• “To win, you have to score one more goal than your opponent.” Johan Cruyff
• “Whatever brings you down will eventually make you stronger.” Alex Morgan
• “You can overcome anything if, and only if, you love something enough.” Lionel Messi
• “Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.” Steve Locker
• “In football [soccer], the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.” Nelson Falcão Rodrigues
• “I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.” Abby Wambach
• “Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back.” Tony Adams
• “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
• “I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.” Cristiano Ronaldo
• “Embrace the opportunity, no matter what it is. Look at everything in a positive light.” – Julie Ertz
• “The most important thing for a forward is the speed of thought. Top players read the game.” Samuel Eto’o
• “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” – Diego Maradona
• “Take your victories, whatever they might be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” Mia Hamm
• “In football [soccer] as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision.” Lionel Messi
• “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
• “Soccer is simple. You just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice, and for every ball.” Hristo Stoichkov
• “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
• “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
• “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 Donovan
• “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
• “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.” Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
• “Good soccer players need not be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, your ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases, skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.” Eduardo Galeano

 

Soccer Player Quotes

• “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” ~ Pele
• “I think soccer kept me off the street.” ~ Memphis Depay
• “Football is the ballet of the masses.” ~ Dmitri Shostakovich
• “Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.” ~ Johan Cruyff
• “I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.” ~Sydney Leroux
• “A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.” ~ Marcelo Bielsa
• “I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
• “When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.” ~ Alphonso Davies
• “I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.” ~ Roger Taylor
• “Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.” ~ Steve Locker
• “I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.” ~ Ron White
• “In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
• “Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.” ~ J. Davitt
• “The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.” ~ Bill Shankly
• “Those who say it can’t be done, shouldn’t interfere with those who are doing it.” ~ Billy Eberhart
• “Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back.” ~ Tony Adams
• “Football is all about sentiment; if it weren’t then we’d all support Manchester United.” ~ Mark O’Brien
• “What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.” ~ Sean Durkin
• “Always believe in your ability and in your goals. This is the only way you will be able to reach them.” ~ Mohamed Salah
• “I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.” ~ Eduardo Galeano
• “The thing about football ~ the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.” ~ Terry Pratchett
• “I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, ‘Yeah bro, we always play ‘Mo Bamba.” It’s crazy.” ~ Sheck Wes
• “Some people tell me that professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.” ~ Bobby Charlton
• “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
• “Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.” ~ Nick Hornby
• “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
• “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
• “One thing you can guarantee as a football fan, maybe the only thing you can guarantee, is that sooner or later someone else is going to have a go at you and your team.” ~ Ian Slatter
• “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
• “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.” ~ Eduardo Galeano