1. “Take the risk, or lose the chance.” – Eden Hazard
2. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” ― Lionel Messi
3. “It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.” ― Ronaldinho
4. “When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.” ― Zlatan Ibrahimovic
5. “The first 90 minutes are the most important.” ― Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson
6. “Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).” ― Albert Camus
7. “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
8. “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.” ― Zinedine Zidane
9. “We must have had 99 percent of the game. it was the other three percent that cost us the match.” ― Ruud Gullit
10. “I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
11. “Football is the ballet of the masses.” – Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
12. “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.” ― Josef “Sepp” Herberger
13. “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.” ― Gary Lineker
14. “I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.” – Wayne Rooney
15. “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet” ― Ronaldinho
16. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pelé
17. “In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.” ― Nelson Falcão Rodrigues
18. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” ― Pelé
19. “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
20. “I never tried to hide the fact that my only goal is to be the best” – Cristiano Ronaldo
22. “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
23. “It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.” – Ronaldinho
24. “To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, and that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.” ― John Boynton Priestley
25. “If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.” ― Kyle Rote, Jr.
26. “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
27. “I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.” ― Wayne Rooney
28. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success. – Diego Maradona
29. “That’s the mentality – don’t just play it, win it”. – Luis Suarez
30. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Leonel Messi
31. “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
32. “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
33. “Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.” – Pele
34. “But it’s cool. Those people weren’t with me when we were pouring water in our cereal.” – Romelu Lukaku
35. “I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.” – Luis Suarez
36. “There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.” – Leonel Messi
37. “Like Zidane, I want to inspire the kids.” – Eden Hazard
38. “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
39. “The first 90 minutes are the most important.” – Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson
40. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi
41. “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
42. “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
43. “Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).” – Albert Camus
44. “As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him on 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
45. “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
46. “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.” – Zinedine Zidane
47. “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
48. “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
49. “Soccer is not just about scoring goals. It’s about winning.” – Unknown Author
50. “Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’” ― Eduardo Galeano
51. “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
52. “It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.” – Ronaldinho
53. “Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.” – Germaine Greer
54. “When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
55. “If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.” ― Roberto Fontanarrosa
56. “I always want more. Whether it’s a goal, or winning a game, I’m never satisfied.” ― Lionel Messi
57. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” – Diego Maradona
58. “I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.” – Brandi Denise Chastain
59. “If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.” – Kyle Rote, Jr.
60. “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits, and get on with trying to win.” – Lionel Messi
61. “In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.” – Eduardo Hughes Galeano
62. “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
63. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” –Unknown
64. “You don’t have to have been a horse to be a jockey.” – Arrigo Sacchi
65. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” – Mia Hamm
66. “There’s no in-between – you’re either good or bad. We were in-between.”― Gary Linekar
67. “Take your victories, whatever they might be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” –Mia Hamm
68. “Many people say I’m the best women’s soccer player in the world. I don’t think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.” ― Mia Hamm
69. “If you’re not sweating, you’re not working hard enough.” – Alex Morgan
70. “I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.”― Mark Viduka
71. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” ― Diego Maradona
72. “Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable!” -Cristiano Ronaldo
73. “Keep working even when no one is watching.” -Alex Morgan
74. 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
75. “In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.” – Nelson Falcão Rodrigues
76. “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” – Mia Hamm
77. “I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.”― Lee Hendrie
78. “I would rather be called strong than pretty. I would rather be called muscular than skinny. I would rather be called athletic than beautiful. I would rather be called a soccer player than a girl.”
79. “It’s hard to beat someone who never quits.”
80. “Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.” ― Franklin Foer
81. “Those who say it can’t be done, shouldn’t interfere with those who are doing it.” – Billy Eberhart
82. “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
83. “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
84. “I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.” – Abby Wambach
85. “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
86. “Soccer is not about justice. It’s a drama, and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.” – Pete Davies
87. “The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.” ― Bill Shankly
88. “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
89. “Maybe they hate me, because I’m too good.” –Cristiano Ronaldo
90. “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
91. “It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.” -Bear Bryant (Not really a World Cup quote, but a great one nonetheless! ? )
92. “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
93. “Everything is practice.” –Pele
94. “Some people think football [soccer]is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.” ― Bill Shankly
95. “Five days shalt thou labor, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.” ― John Anthony Burgess Wilson
96. “In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favorite soccer team.” ― Eduardo Hughes Galeano
97. “Every time I went away I was deceiving my mom. 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
98. “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.”
99. “Some people tell me that professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.” – Bobby Charlton
100. “And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.” ― Eduardo Galeano
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