Soccer Quotes, Sayings about soccer sport - Page 2
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
- George Best
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
- Jose Mourinho
Italians can’t win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
- Johan Cryuff
I’m not going to resign. I’m going to try to make it right. In October, win two games and we qualify.
- Sven Goran
Some people believe football is a matter of life and death…it is much, much more important than that.
- Bill Shankley
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
- Mia Hamm
I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.
- Arsene Wenger
The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers Celtic match to watch the football.
- Sandy Strang
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.
- Anthony Burgess
If you buy a man who is half-dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you’ll have major problems.
- Arsene Wenger
I will also take risks in the future. At least, it is good for everyone: our team, the crowd and also the opponent.
- Aad Mos
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
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
- Bobby Charlton
I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring.
- Nick Hornby
Bora told me that a person who trains hard is always successful and because of this my training has improved and I am a better player.
- Hossein Kaebi
Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
- Henry Blaha
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 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
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
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
- Jean Paul Sartre


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