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SOCCER QUOTES

Welcome to the Socster.com soccer quotes compilation. You can find all sorts of soccer quotes ranging from inspirational to funny quotes.

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  • "Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
    -- Stan Smith
  • "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."
    -- Mia Hamm
  • "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
  • "Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence."
    -- Bobby Charlton
  • "Everything is practice."
    -- Bill Shankley
  • "The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything."
    -- Mia Hamm
  • "Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball."
    -- Tommy Docherty
  • "Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God."
    -- Hugo Sanchez
  • "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."
    -- Ronaldinho
  • "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
  • "I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life."
    -- Marcelo Balboa
  • "It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight."
    -- Casey Korkus
  • "Everyone tells me that the Italian championship is the toughest in the world, but I'm not afraid. In my career, I've always scored goals, wherever I've been."
    -- Ronaldo
  • "The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching."
    -- Anson Dorrance
  • "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
  • "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
  • "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
  • "I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."
    -- Mia Hamm
  • "Tell me how you play and I will tell you who you are."
    -- Eduardo Galeano
  • "30 minutes to go, and it's still 1-0 apiece."
    -- A commentator
  • "The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory."
    -- David Coleman
  • "What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker."
    -- Peter Drury
  • "Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it."
    -- Ian Darke
  • "I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back."
    -- Eric Morecambe
  • "Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that."
    -- Pete Davies
  • "Football is the opera of the people."
    -- Stafford Heginbotham
  • "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
  • "Football is a game in which a handful of fit men run around for one and a half hours watched by millions of people who could really use the exercise."
    -- Anonymous
  • "I definitely want him to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet."
    -- David Beckham, talking about his son Brooklyn
  • "We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4."
    -- Bill Shankly
  • "In soccer there are no time outs, helmets, shoulder pads, commercial breaks, half time extravaganzas so, if that's what you need...go play football you big wuss!"
    -- Sara Thomas
  • "I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win."
    -- Howard Wilkinson
  • "Football's not a matter of life and death ... it's more important than that."
    -- Bill Shankly
  • "You had a chance until I stepped on the field."
    -- Sara Thomas
  • "He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post."
    -- Jimmy Greaves
  • "Ian Rush, deadly ten times out of ten, but that wasn't one of them."
    -- Peter Jones
  • "This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players."
    -- Javier Clemente
  • "The score is Sunderland nil, Leicester nil, the temperature is nil and the entertainment value is not much above nil."
    -- Radio 5 Live
  • "Oh, he had an eternity to play that ball, but he took too long over it."
    -- Martin Tyler
  • "It was a good match, which could have gone either way and very nearly did."
    -- Jim Sherwin
  • "The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney."
    -- Dean Holdsworth
  • "Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself."
    -- Mike Gray
  • "Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time."
    -- Richard Moller Nielsen
  • "If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim."
    -- Berti Vogts
  • "He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head."
    -- Derek Johnstone
  • "So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole."
    -- Tony Gubba
  • "I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country."
    -- Ian Rush
  • "I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy."
    -- Jimmy Armfield
  • "And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems."
    -- Brian Moore
  • "Everything in our favor was against us."
    -- Danny Blanchflower
  • "Well, Clive, it's all about the two M's - movement and positioning."
    -- Ron Atkinson
  • "Believe it or not, goals can change a game."
    -- Mike Channon
  • "If there weren't such a thing as football, we'd all be frustrated footballers."
    -- Mick Lyons
  • "What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio."
    -- Gerry Francis
  • "If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing."
    -- Bill Shankly
  • "Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
    -- David Acfield
  • "Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins."
    -- Brian Moore
  • "If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent."
    -- Bryan Robson
  • "I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones."
    -- Chris Turner
  • "The referee was booking everyone. I thought he was filling in his lottery numbers."
    -- Ian Wright
  • "Forest have now lost six matches without winning."
    -- David Coleman
  • "Sporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras."
    -- Peter Jones
  • "Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm."
    -- Barry Davies
  • "It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road."
    -- Alan Green
  • "McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee."
    -- Martin Tyler
  • "I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction."
    -- Archie MacPherson
  • "The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose."
    -- John Helm
  • "And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0."
    -- Ian Darke
  • "Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve."
    -- John Greig
  • "It's headed away by John Clark, using his head."
    -- Derek Rae
  • "You don't score 64 goals in 86 games without being able to score goals."
    -- Alan Green
  • "West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark."
    -- John Helm
  • "Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil."
    -- Barry Davies
  • "Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on."
    -- John Helm
  • "Emile Zola has scored again for Chelsea."
    -- Radio 5 live
  • "Ian Rush is deadly 10 times out of 10, but that wasn't one of them."
    -- Peter Jones
  • "If that had gone in, it would have been a goal."
    -- David Coleman
  • "Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland."
    -- David Coleman
  • "The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties."
    -- Martin Tyler
  • "If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen."
    -- Terry Venables
  • "Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish."
    -- Graham Taylor
  • "It wasn't going to be our day on the night."
    -- Bryan Robson
  • "Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them."
    -- Arsene Wenger
  • "I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different."
    -- Glenn Hoddle
  • "We keep kicking ourselves in the foot."
    -- Ray Wilkins
  • "It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there."
    -- Jack Charlton
  • "Paolo Di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored."
    -- Bryan Robson
  • "If they hadn't scored, we would've won."
    -- Howard Wilkinson
  • "People always remember the second half."
    -- Graham Taylor
  • "I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week."
    -- Jack Charlton
  • "He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head."
    -- Glenn Hoddle
  • "Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness."
    -- Graham Taylor
  • "We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other three per cent that cost us the match."
    -- Ruud Gullit
  • "It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."
    -- Graham Taylor
  • "Home advantage gives you an advantage."
    -- Bobby Robson
  • "I was a young lad when I was growing up."
    -- David O'Leary
  • "When a player gets to 30, so does his body."
    -- Glen Hoddle
  • "Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win."
    -- Vinny Jones
  • "There's no in between - you're either good or bad. We were in between."
    -- Gary Lineker
  • "It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked."
    -- Richard Rufus
  • "I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football."
    -- Les Ferdinand
  • "My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7."
    -- David Beckham
  • "I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel."
    -- Stuart Pearce
  • "Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesbrough."
    -- Jonathan Woodgate
  • "I'm as happy as I can be - but I have been happier."
    -- Ugo Ehiogu
  • "The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee."
    -- Mike Ingham
  • "It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the scoreline on Saturday."
    -- Radio 5 live
  • "Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin."
    -- Mike Ingham
  • "This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser."
    -- Alan Green
  • "Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1."
    -- Mike Ingham
  • "He's 31 this year: last year he was 30."
    -- David Coleman
  • "As I've said before and I've said it in the past..."
    -- Kenny Dalglish
  • "The first 90 minutes are the most important."
    -- Bobby Robson
  • "In a year's time, he's a year older."
    -- Bobby Robson
  • "The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away."
    -- Alex Ferguson
  • "It took a lot of bottle for Tony (Adams) to own up."
    -- Ian Wright
  • "It was a big relief off my shoulder."
    -- Paul Gascoigne
  • "Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match."
    -- Ian Wright
  • "I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester."
    -- Stan Collymore
  • "You've got to believe that 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
  • "I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona."
    -- Mark Draper
  • "I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well."
    -- Alan Shearer
  • "I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable."
    -- Paul Gascoigne
  • "We lost because we didn't win."
    -- Ronaldo
  • "If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day."
    -- Neville Southall
  • "He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa."
    -- Ronnie Whelan
  • "I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league."
    -- Mark Viduka
  • "Sometimes in football you have to score goals."
    -- Thierry Henry
  • "I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd."
    -- Johnny Giles
  • "One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best."
    -- Alan Shearer
  • "The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it."
    -- Graeme Le Saux
  • "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
  • "If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms than Ian Wright."
    -- Robbie Earle
  • "I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right."
    -- Lee Hendrie
  • "My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal"
    -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "All human history moves towards one great goal"
    -- James Joyce
  • "All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed."
    -- Mitchell Thomas
  • "The Brazilians were South America, and the Ukranians will be more European."
    -- Phil Neville
  • "I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock."
    -- Barry Venison
  • "Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today."
    -- Steve Lomas
  • "In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team"
    -- Jean-Paul Sartre