Soccer Quotes and Sayings

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

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

Those who say it can’t be done, shouldn’t interfere with those who are doing it.
- Billy Eberhart

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

The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.
- Sandy Strang

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

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 Shankley

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
- Mia Hamm

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don’t win… All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
- Jose Mourinho

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

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Nike (beckham)

We hope Du Wei could be Yao Ming on the football pitch here
- Gordon Strachan

We’ve never had a pop-star footballer quite like David (Beckham). People here simply can’t get enough
- Alan Smith

I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better
- Arsene Wenger