Soccer Quotes

Soccer players, coaches, officials, members of FIFA and other football federations around the world keep on expressing their views about the game, their peers and about the life in general. God has created a world full of human complexities, however along with it there is always a tint of simplicity. The simpler it is the more beautiful it would look to the human eye. A simple thought is sometimes more complex than an intricate one. Here are some of the famous soccer quotes, the simplest thoughts about soccer expressed by various people. Though they are said in the context of soccer but some of them can very easily be applied to the life in general.

1. The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game. Etto.

2. We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two. Frank McLintock.

3. We lost because we didn’t win. Ronaldo.

4. If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing. Bill Shankly.

5. Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Bill Shankly.

6. If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing. Kyle Rote.

7. One year I played fifteen months. Franz Beckenbauer.

Whatever happens, there are always things you might have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you might have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you might have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life. Pele

Take a look at the lives of great people and you will see that there is hardly ever an instance where they were born great. You go in politics, you come in science, medicine, literature, theatre, sports blah, blah, blah!!! Hard work is what has made them what they are now. As could be taken from what Franz Beckenbauer (a living legend of the German football) and Pele (a living legend of the world of football) has said. These are the most inspirational soccer quotes.

However there is something more to the life than mere seriousness. Fun is an essential part of it. Without it the life would dry down. Soccer I s fun filled game, with a number of players often providing the media with some funny soccer quotes. Here are few of the cute soccer quotes.

1. On another night, they'd have won 2-2. (Commenting on a Valencia-Liverpool Match) Ron Atkinson.

2. I never make predictions, and I never will. Paul Gascoigne

3. We didn't underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought. Bobby Robson

4. Let's close our eyes and see what happens. Jimmy Greaves

Are you a mediocre soccer player, want some motivation from your favorite players? Here are some of the motivational soccer quotes from well soccer players.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. Bobby Charlton

These are just a few drops in the unending ocean of the soccer quotes you may find all around you. Every day a number of soccer players are interviewed or are found expressing their thoughts, which soon become great quotations. All these funny and great soccer quotes can be a source of learning for us.

Hard work, dissatisfaction over the achievements, striving for more, looking for perfection and a life full of fun and enthusiasm, these are all the traits you would find in abundance in the great players all around the world. All this is very much evident from their words, as the words reflect the thoughts. Soccer quotes justify the characters of the hard work they have put in to bring themselves forward as unforgettable legends.