Great Soccer Quotes

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

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.

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

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.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

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.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

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

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, 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.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

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.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.