Ultimate Collection of Inspirational Soccer Quotes to Motivate Every Player

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."

- Pelé

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

"A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the group. This way you have the strength of the group and you have the strength of the individual."

- Diego Maradona

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

- Bill Shankly

"The reason I success is because I’ve never been afraid to fail."

- David Beckham

"Success is not permanent and failure is not fatal."

- Sir Alex Ferguson

"To be successful, you must be yourself, be the best that you can be, and not allow anyone to stand in your way."

- Hope Solo

"Believe you can do it. Believe you deserve it. Believe you will get it."

- Abby Wambach

"In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward."

- Pep Guardiola

"If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it."

- Jürgen Klopp

"Once you bid farewell to discipline, you say goodbye to success."

- Sir Alex Ferguson

"If you think you’re perfect already, then you never will be."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"It’s hard to beat somebody that never gives up."

- Megan Rapinoe

"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

"The only victory that counts is the one over yourself."

- Lionel Messi

"Everybody has a talent, but it's what you do with it that makes it great."

- Alex Morgan

"Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can’t win."

- David Beckham

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

- Lionel Messi

"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

"No one is bigger than the team, you win together, and you can certainly lose together."

- Julie Ertz

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

- 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

"I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success."

- Lionel Messi

"Don't be scared to be ambitious. It's not a humiliation to have a high target and to fail. For me, the real humiliation is to have a target and not to give everything to reach it."

- Arsène Wenger

"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."

- Pelé

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size in the fight of the dog."

- Archie Griffin

"I don’t believe in luck, I only believe in hard work."

- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

"Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back."

- Tony Adams

"Football is not just a game; it’s an art form. You have to be creative, think outside the box, and always be one step ahead of your opponent."

- Ronaldinho

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"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

"It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

- Paul Bryant

"To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them."

- Picabo Street

"If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat."

- Herschel Walker

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"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."

- Ron Greenwood

"Your love makes me strong; your hate makes me unstoppable."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."

- Ernie Banks

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t."

- Jack Dempsey

"If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!"

- Charles Barkley

"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."

- Abby Wambach

"Fail to prepare, prepare to fail."

- Roy Keane

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"I don’t have the formula to win. But I have the formula to fight and keep going."

- Diego Simeone

"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters."

- Evander Holyfield

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough."

- Lionel Messi

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

- NAPOLEON HILL

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better."

- Tony Dungy

"A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others."

- Norman Shidle

"It is not the strong one that wins, but the one that wins is strong."

- Franz Beckenbauer

"The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking."

- Mia Hamm

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching."

- Mia Hamm

"Without football, my life is worth nothing."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three-star players."

- Pele

"The secret to success is to never let down and never let up."

- Larry Bird

"I just hate losing and that gives you extra determination to work harder."

- Wayne Rooney

"If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way."

- Pep Guardiola

"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

"Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won."

- Billy Bowerman

"It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game."

- Grantland Rice

"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."

- Paul Brown

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations."

- John C. Maxwell

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."

- Herb Brooks

"It’s not about the name on the back of the jersey, it’s about the badge on the front."

- David Beckham

"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."

- Jimmy Johnson

"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

"Football is a universal language. It brings people together. irrespective of their nationalities, cultures or beliefs."

- George Weah

"The fear of losing is sometimes greater than the will to win."

- Emma Hayes

"Football is simple. But nothing is more difficult than playing simple football."

- Johan Cruyff

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders."

- George P. Burnham

"When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far."

- Diego Maradona

"Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other."

- Emma Hayes

"I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals."

- Mia Hamm

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet."

- Zinedine Zidane

"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

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

- Pele

"It doesn’t matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart."

- Abby Wambach

"Football is an art like dancing is an art, but only when it's well done does it become an art."

- Arsene Wenger

"The key to success in football is to be in the right place at the right time."

- Teddy Sheringham

"If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion."

- Mia Hamm

"Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger."

- Alex Morgan

"you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back."

- Miracle (2004 film)

"Dream big, because dreams do happen."

- Alex Morgan

"You don’t play for the crowd; you play for the country."

- Mahendra Singh Dhoni

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."

- John Madden

"If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they’ve won."

- Mia Hamm

"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."

- Johan Cruyff

"I learned all about life with a ball at my feet."

- Ronaldinho

"If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?"

- Joe Namath

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"Swedish style? No. Yugoslavian style? Of course not. It has to be Zlatan-style."

- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

"In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision."

- Lionel Messi

"I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality, there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real."

- José Mourinho

"I think soccer is a great game because it brings people together. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what language you speak, soccer unites everyone."

- Marco Van Basten

"It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there."

- Mia Hamm

"The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything."

- Mia Hamm

"It’s all about the journey, not the outcome."

- Carl Lewis

"You can’t just beat a team; you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again."

- Mia Hamm

"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal."

- Mia Hamm

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

- Andre Agassi

"Soccer is a magical game."

- David Beckham

"You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation."

- Homer Rice

"I don’t celebrate because I’m only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?"

- Mario Balotelli

"The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory."

- Sepp Herberger

"I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football."

- Les Ferdinand

"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

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."

- Eric Cantona

"Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men; I owe it to football (soccer)."

- Albert Camus

"When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success."

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that."

"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles."

"Football is the ballet of the masses."