Soccer, also known as football in some countries, is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is a team sport that is played between two teams of eleven players each. In soccer, the enthusiasm of players as well as of spectators is always at high level. The fans and followers of soccer players almost live the game everyday. Here, we have compiled some of the most famous and inspirational soccer quotes, given by football-icons. Go through this amazing collection of football quotations and get inspired by your favorite player's sayings.
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Soccer Quotes
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
 Jean Paul Sartre |
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Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Johan Cruijff |
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I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
Johnny Giles |
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Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
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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 |
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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Elizabeth II |
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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 |
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Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
Jim Murray |
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I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Ronaldo |
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Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Bobby Charlton |
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I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
Barry Venison |
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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 |
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When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
Jose Mourinho |
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Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele |
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If God had wanted man to play soccer, He wouldn't have given us arms.
Mike Ditka |
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Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.
Pete Davies |
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I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.
Les Ferdinand |
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Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Ondino Viera |
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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 |
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The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
Maradona |
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My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Steve Nash |
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Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
Ann Coulter |
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill |
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When they did Monday Night Football , it was all about three networks. You didn't have 600 choices. Today, the market share is smaller, but we still believe the product will be just as good.
Joe Theismann |
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His accuracy, leadership skills and the way he manages a football game.
Joe Theismann |
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“Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.”
Bjork |
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“Football is easy if you're crazy as hell”
Bo Jackson |
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry |
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My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham |
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I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
Rod Stewart |
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You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
Jose Mourinho |
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When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
Jose Mourinho |
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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
Jose Mourinho |
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And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Jose Mourinho |
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I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
Knute Rockne |
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Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne |
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I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
Sting |
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Fantasy football is out of control.
Lewis Black |
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I am very sorry for the fans. I told (the players) that if we are going to play football like this we can forget the World Cup.
Sven Goran Eriksson |
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He came and reported, but there's no chance he can play football.
Sven Goran Eriksson |
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
Bear Bryant |
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly |
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I was only in the game for the love of football -- and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
Bill Shankly |
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I know I can't go on forever - how can I forget it when my so-called team-mates keep asking me which king was on the throne when I started and what football was like in the Dark Ages!
Les Ferdinand |
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Les Ferdinand was a player we spoke to. Though he still trains every day, he has a lot of media work going on and is not able to make a commitment. He has nothing to prove as a footballer - his future is in the media and we respect that. Hopefully this shows we are not scared to speak to anyone.
Les Ferdinand |
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
Bear Bryant |
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It doesn't really surprise me and I hope that what George Best has given to football will improve the game as we know it.
Bobby Charlton |
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I'm looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.
Bobby Charlton |
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Snoop is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
Ice Cube |
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Goals are always in demand. There will always be a market for a striker who is fast, scores goals regularly and is strong. I've scored more than 100 goals and people know what they are buying.
Ronaldo |
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I want to enjoy the full pleasure of our victory, but then turn to new things I hope to achieve in football.
Ronaldo |
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Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world.
Ronaldo |
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I cannot accept the statements made by the Rugby Football Union claiming that a clear agreement was in place.
Brian Kennedy |
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