Inspiring Soccer Quotes to Ignite Your Passion for the Game

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

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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

- Pele

"Soccer is more than a game; it’s a way of life."

- Johan Cruyff

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

- Lionel Messi

"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

"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

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

- Pele

"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

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If 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

"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 difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"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

"Talent is important, but it’s the effort that determines the level of your success."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Michael Phelps

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

- Pele

"The best teams are made up of players who put the collective above their individual ambitions."

- Xavi Hernandez

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

- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

"Dream big, because dreams do happen."

- Alex Morgan

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Lionel Messi

"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

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- 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

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

"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

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Herschel Walker

"In soccer, the greatest satisfaction is seeing the ball hit the net."

- Robin van Persie

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

- John Wooden

"It’s not the disability that defines you; it’s how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with."

- Jim Abbott

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

- Ronaldinho

"In football (soccer), the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There’s something greater than the result, more lasting – a legacy."

- Xavi

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

- Diego Maradona

"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

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

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Sir Alex Ferguson

"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

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

- David Beckham

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Larry Bird

"Good soccer players need not only great footwork but also a big heart."

- Abby Wambach

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

- Charles Barkley

"Football is the universal language."

- César Luis Menotti

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

- Franz Beckenbauer

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Abby Wambach

"Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper."

- Gary Speed

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

- Alex Morgan

"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

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

- Archie Griffin

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

- George P. Burnham

"Soccer is a magical game."

- David Beckham

"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

"I think sometimes the best training is to rest."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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

- Teddy Sheringham

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

- Joe Namath

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- John Madden

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Johan Cruyff

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

- Carl Lewis

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Mia Hamm

"If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal."

- Mark Lawrenson

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

- Andre Agassi

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

- Sepp Herberger

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

- Ernie Banks

"Football is the ballet of the masses."

"May the winds of destiny blow you to the stars"