Soccer Quotes - Page 2

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

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

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.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress.

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

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.

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.

We don't sign superstars, we make them.

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

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

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.