Whether you call it soccer or football, there’s no debating that the “beautiful game” is the height of athleticism. The technical skills, IQ and talent needed to compete at the World Cup or Premier League level is inspiring. It’s no wonder that so many soccer players have given us as many off the field gems as they have on the field.
There is no better example of this than with the hilarious and wacky comments of one Diego Maradonna. An article we still get comments about to this day.
This collection isn’t much different. It was all about the absolute best quotes we could find about life, success and everything else we learn from sports. We’ve hand picked each one to ensure this list includes everything from the funny and sarcastic to the seriously motivational.
The 50 Best Football Quotes
- 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
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2. When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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3. Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. – John Anthony Burgess Wilson
4. 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
5. I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family. – Hope Amelia Solo
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6. I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet. – Zinedine Zidane
7. 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. – Roy Maurice Keane
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8. 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
9. It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch. – Ronaldinho
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9. When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success. – Diego Maradona
10. I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from. – Cristiano Ronaldo
11. Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. – Pele
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12. As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don’t think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. – Gareth Bale
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13. In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. – Nelson Falcão Rodrigues
14. Football is the ballet of the masses. – Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
15. I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder. – Wayne Rooney
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16. In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. – Eduardo Hughes Galeano
17. You don’t have to have been a horse to be a jockey. – Arrigo Sacchi
18. If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing. – Kyle Rote, Jr.
19. The first 90 minutes are the most important. – Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson
20. You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. – Lionel Messi
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21. A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful. – Arsène Wenger
22. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Edson Arantes do Nascimento
23. I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star. – Roderick David “Rod” Stewart
24. Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder. – Serge Schmemann
25. I do not play football, I score goals. – Dario José dos Santos
26. Every disadvantage has its advantage. – Hendrik Johannes Cruijff
27. The thing about football…the important thing about football…is that it is not just about football. – Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett
28. Every defeat is a victory in itself. – Francisco Maturana García
29. It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0. – Vahid “Vaha” Halilhodžic’
30. Sometimes in soccer you have to score goals. – Thierry Daniel Henry
31. Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win. – Gary Lineker
32. In Europe, it’s different – you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer. – Thomas Dooley
33. We must have had 99 percent of the game. it was the other three percent that cost us the match. – Ruud Gullit
34. It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays. – George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah
35. I always want more. Whether it’s a goal, or winning a game, I’m never satisfied. – Lionel Messi
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36. Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. – Lewis William Gordon Pugh
37. I never thought I’d play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special. – Cobi Jones
38. If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America. – Ethan Z
39. 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. – Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
40. I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field. – Brandi Denise Chastain
41. Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as god. – Hugo Sánchez Márquez
42. What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship. – Sean Durkin
43. Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can’t win. – Unknown Author
44. Soccer is not just about scoring goals. It’s about winning. – Unknown Author
45. Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time. – Unknown Author
46. 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
47. The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. – Josef “Sepp” Herberger
48. Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. – Germaine Greer
49. The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. – William “Bill” Shankly
50. Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. – Sir Robert “Bobby” Charlton
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Are there any soccer quotes we may have missed? Are there any that inspire you? Let us know in the comments.
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