Football is a term used to refer to several related team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. The most popular form of football worldwide is association football, also known as soccer. However, the term “football” can mean different sports depending on the country.
In the United States and Canada, “football” typically refers to American football or Canadian football, both of which involve teams making strategic plays to move the ball down the field, primarily by carrying it or passing it forward, with the goal of reaching the opponent’s end zone.
In the United Kingdom, Australia, and many other countries, “football” usually refers to what is known as soccer in the US. This is a game where two teams of eleven players each compete to get a ball into the opposing team’s goal using any part of their body except their hands and arms.
In other parts of the world, “football” might refer to other sports like Australian rules football, Gaelic football, or rugby.
Football – a game that transcends beyond the boundaries of the field into the broader sphere of life. It teaches lessons about teamwork, determination, goal-setting, and resilience. The thoughts and words of football players, coaches, and enthusiasts have often served as a rich source of inspiration. In this article, we delve into some of these powerful football quotes.
Motivational Football Quotes
1- “Since the beginning of the competition he has got it right, and I hope it will be the same for the final.” ~ Antoine Griezmann
2- “Football’s not just about scoring goals, it’s about winning.” – Alan Shearer
3- “Everything in my life has happened very early, personally and professionally. I’m always learning: I have to.” ~ Neymar Jr.
4- “Always train hard, work harder, never give up” – Marcus Rashford
5- “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” ~ Mia Hamm
6-“I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.” – Sydney Leroux
7- Losers complain, winners train.” – Jose Mourinho
8- “If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.” ~ Kyle Rote, Jr.
9- “Football is all about sentiment; if it weren’t then we’d all support Manchester United.” ~ Mark O’Brien
10- “What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.” ~ Sean Durkin
11- “I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.” ~ Brandi Denise Chastain
12- The thing about football ~ the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.” ~ Terry Pratchett
13- “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” ~ Diego Maradona
14- “In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
15- “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.” ~ Josef “Sepp” Herberger
16- “I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.” ~Sydney Leroux
17- “I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” ~ Mia Hamm
18- “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” ~ Pele
19- “They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.”~ Brian Clough
20- “Always believe in your ability and in your goals. This is the only way you will be able to reach them.” ~ Mohamed Salah
21- “When I’ve done gymnastics, ballet or soccer – I was always trying to be the best. I’m really driven. Really driven.” ~ Chloe Grace Moretz
22- “Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back.” ~ Tony Adams
23- “I really want to try soccer after I retire because I’ve watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.” ~ Usain Bolt
24- “A great soccer player is never content with their performance.” ~ Alex Morgan’
25- “If you’re in the penalty area and don’t know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we’ll discuss the options later.” ~Bob Paisley’
26- “I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.” ~ Pep Guardiola
27- “Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.”~ Dennis Bergkamp
Inspirational Football Quotes
28- “The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything.” ~ Mia Hamm
29- “Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.” ~ Germaine Greer
30- “To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Remember, only teams succeed.” ~ Jose Mourinho
31- “For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.” ~ Gabriel Batistuta
32- “It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.” ~ Ronaldinho
33- “Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick.” ~ Adam Gopnik
34 “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
35- “Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worst player on the pitch!” ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
36- “One thing you can guarantee as a football fan, maybe the only thing you can guarantee, is that sooner or later someone else is going to have a go at you and your team.” ~ Ian Slatter
37- “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.” ~ Zinedine Zidane
38- “Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.” ~ J. Davitt’,
‘“A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.” ~ Marcelo Bielsa
39- “When good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.” ~ Eduardo Galeano
40- “Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.” ~ Steve Locker
41- “I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, ‘Yeah bro, we always play ‘Mo Bamba.” It’s crazy.” ~ Sheck Wes
42- “The first 90 minutes are the most important.” ~ Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson
43- “I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.” ~ Eduardo Galeano
44- “I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.” ~ Ron White
45- “I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.” ~ Wayne Rooney
46- “When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.” ~ Alphonso Davies
47- “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” ~ Pele
48- “I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
49- “To be a professional you have to act like one as well.” ~ Alcurtis Turner
50- “Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.” ~ Johan Cruyff
51- “Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).” ~ Albert Camus
52- “I think soccer kept me off the street.” ~ Memphis Depay
Famous Football Quotes
53- “Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.” ~ Arsene Wenger
54- “The rules of soccer are very simple, basically, it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does.” ~ Phil Woosnam
55- “It is a unique and special feeling when the fans sing my name. It’s incredible when I hear the song, and it’s touching that there are people who connect with you.” ~ Philippe Coutinho
56- “Football is the ballet of the masses.” ~ Dmitri Shostakovich
57- “Some people tell me that professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.” ~ Bobby Charlton
58- “I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.” ~ Luis Suarez
59- “The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.” ~ Bill Shankly
60- “You’ve got to believe 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
62- “But it’s cool. Those people weren’t with me when we were pouring water in our cereal.” ~ Romelu Lukaku
63- “Those who say it can’t be done, shouldn’t interfere with those who are doing it.” ~ Billy Eberhart
64- “Whatever brings you down will eventually make you stronger.” ~ Alex Morgan
65- “Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.” ~ Andrea Pirlo
66- “Good soccer players need not be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases, skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.” ~ Eduardo Galeano
67- “My heroes were always soccer players.” ~ Ronaldinho
68- “We must have had 99 percent of the game. it was the other three percent that cost us the match.” ~ Ruud Gullit
69- “I want to win and always have done since I was small. I don’t know if it’s in my blood or just my personality.” ~ Diego Costa
70- “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.” ~ Gary Lineker
71- “That’s the mentality – don’t just play it, win it”. ~ Luis Suarez
72- “Soccer must be played with the heart, not with strength and talent as perceived.” ~ ABC
73- “If Earth had a soccer team, everyone on Earth would wear the same jersey to support it. There’d be no them, there’d only be us.” ~ Peta Kelly
74- “I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.” ~ Paul Pogba
75- “If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.” ~ Era Bombeck
76- “I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously, I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are.” ~ Harry Kane
77- “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” ~ Lou Holtz
78- “Take the risk, or lose the chance.” ~ Eden Hazard
79- “Football is the poetry of a motion.” ~ Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake
80- “If you weren’t with me when I had nothing, then you can’t really understand me,” ~ Romelu Lukaku
81- “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.” ~ Ronaldinho
82- “Football is an art, players paint with their feet.” ~ Maswood Alam Khan
83- “There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.” ~ Neymar Jr.
84- “Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.” ~ Blaise Pascal
85- “Outside football, I just love life, you know. We’re lucky to play football, to have all this body. Everyone’s watching us.” ~ Paul Pogba
86- “I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.”~ Lee Hendrie
87- “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” ~ Mia Hamm
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88- “I have to keep working hard and playing well because I don’t like to be second or third: they’re the worst places to be. You would be proud, of course, because it means you’re on the way, but you want to finish first.” ~ Paul Pogba
89- “I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.”~ Mark Viduka
90- “If you’re not sweating, you’re not working hard enough.” ~ Alex Morgan
91- “All goal scorers go on droughts. It is how you cope with that. And it is not just about scoring, it is about what you bring to the team, bringing others into play and getting assists.” ~ Harry Kane
92- “There’s no in-between – you’re either good or bad. We were in-between.”~ Gary Linekar
93- “I’m going to remember to have fun this time. Life is too short for the stress and the drama.” ~ Romelu Lukaku
94- “We dominated the game physically and mentally, in all aspects. We should have killed the game before extra-time.” ~ Luka Modric
95- “I have to be scoring goals and playing well to get in the team because, if not, others who are in better form will play.” ~ Diego Costa
96- “Our country has been through difficult experiences in terms of unity. Sport – football in particular – has the power to help that. It is a special feeling.” ~ Gareth Southgate
97- “The questions around us principally come down to character; the essential ability to withstand events that go against you.” ~ Gareth Southgate
98- “People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I’m the strongest dude you’re ever going to meet.” ~ Romelu Lukaku
99- “You can overcome anything, if and if only you love something enough.” ~ Lionel Messi
100- “I hope the players benefit from my experience but this is their final. It is something they have worked for and they will be able to enjoy it.” ~ Didier Deschamps
101- “My ambition is always to get better and better.” ~ Lionel Messi
102- “I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at major tournaments.” ~ Luka Modric
103- “Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.” ~ Lionel Messi
104- “The objective is to win with all the team, personal records are secondary.” ~ Lionel Messi
105- “Tactically, the coach did a perfect job yesterday, so we know we will be fully prepared.” ~ Antoine Griezmann
106- “The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.” ~ Lionel Messi
107- “Only in sport can you live through emotions like this. We knew how to put them in difficulty, we made them run, we prepared well.” ~Samuel Umtiti
108- “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits, and get on with trying to win.” ~ Lionel Messi
109- “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” ~ Lionel Messi
110- “The players are writing a beautiful page of French football history.” ~ Didier Deschamps
111- “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.” ~ Lionel Messi
112- “Every single day I woke up and commit to myself to become a better player.” ~ Mia Hamm
113- “You can overcome anything, if, and only if, you love something enough.” ~ Lionel Messi
Soccer Motivational Quotes
114- “Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves.” ~ Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez
115- “What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.” ~ Lionel Messi
116- “I love football, and you love football, and arguing about it is just a waste of time.” ~ Ian Slatter
117- “I think sometimes the best training is to rest.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
118- “God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.” ~ Ronaldinho
119- “I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
120- “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.” ~ Pele
121- “Talent without working hard is nothing.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
122- “Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable!”~ Cristiano Ronaldo
123- “Maybe they hate me because I’m too good.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
124- “I never tried to hide the fact that my only goal is to be the best” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
125- “Take your victories, whatever they might be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” ~ Mia Hamm
126- “I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
127- “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’
128- “Keep working even when no one is watching.”~ Alex Morgan
129- “I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans but also to feel satisfied with myself.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
130- “It is my conviction that there are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
131- “The smartest thing I did is I never gave up.” ~ Ivan Rakitic
132- “I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.” ~ Cristiano Ronaldo
133- “Soccer is not about justice. It’s a drama, and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.” ~ Pete Davies
134- “Everything is practice.” ~ Pele
