Famous Soccer Quotes
“Football[soccer] is the ballet of the masses.”
Dmitri Shostakovich
“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
“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”
Pele
“I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.”
Brandi Chastain
“I’ve never played for a draw in my life.”
Sir Alex Ferguson
“We always try to win until the very end. If we don’t, we congratulate the opponent. That’s what sport is about.”
Pep Guardiola
“If you have the ball you must make the field as big as possible. If you don’t have the ball you must make it as small as possible.”
Johann Cruyff
“Excuses are like losses. Everyone has them except champions.”
Alex Morgan
“I don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘born’ soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player.“
Pelé
“In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.”
Nelson Rodrigues