Top 100 Football Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Winning Quotes, Performance Quotes, Ambition Quotes

2. “Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.”

— Alex Ferguson

Also featured in: Competition Quotes

3. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Coaching Quotes

4. “You are what your record says you are.”

— Bill Parcells

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Competition Quotes, Reputation Quotes

5. “If you don’t play to win don’t play at all.”

— Tom Brady

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Winning Quotes, Competition Quotes

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

— Pep Guardiola

Also featured in: Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes, Grind Quotes, Soccer Quotes

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

— Bill Shankly

Also featured in: Silly Quotes

8. “Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.”

— Bill Parcells

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Sports Quotes

9. “Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Winning Quotes

10. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes, Victory Quotes, Competition Quotes

11. “Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.”

— Robert Griffin III

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Sports Quotes, Quotes About Skills

12. “It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Impact Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

13. “When something goes wrong, smile, because there’s always a next play.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Performance Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Mistake Quotes

14. “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.”

— Ronaldinho

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Sports Quotes, Soccer Quotes

15. “We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Sports Quotes

16. “I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Sports Quotes

17. “There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Practice Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes

18. “Success isn’t owned – it’s leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone’s coming for your job. Someone’s coming for your greatness. If you’re the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you’re not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.”

— J. J. Watt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Epic Quotes, Competition Quotes, Exercise Quotes

19. “If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”

— Bill Shankly

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Victory Quotes, Soccer Quotes

20. “Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.”

— Bill Belichick

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

21. “It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”

— Bear Bryant

Also featured in: Preparation Quotes, Victory Quotes

22. “I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Winning Quotes, Performance Quotes

23. “Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Competition Quotes

24. “You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Stay Strong Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes

25. “The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.”

— Bill Walsh

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Competition Quotes, Culture Quotes

26. “You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.”

— Eric Cantona

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes

27. “Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Fitness Quotes

28. “Goals are only important if they win games.”

— Lionel Messi

Also featured in: Soccer Quotes

29. “If you can’t win, make sure you don’t lose.”

— Johan Cruijff

Also featured in: Loss Quotes

30. “There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes

31. “If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Victory Quotes, Competition Quotes, Powerful Quotes

32. “If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you’re going to reap the benefits.”

— Richard Sherman

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Quotes About Work, Consistency Quotes

33. “Winning as a team is better than anything. It’s great to share success.”

— Jim Harbaugh

Also featured in: Collaboration Quotes

34. “Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.”

— Bear Bryant

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men

35. “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

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Consistency Quotes

36. “Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Perfection Quotes

37. “On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.”

— Chuck Noll

38. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

39. “All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.”

— Emmitt Smith

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes

40. “All I know is grind.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Sports Quotes

41. “We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Coaching Quotes, Dedication Quotes

42. “The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Effort Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Sports Quotes, Productivity Quotes

43. “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Coaching Quotes, Commitment Quotes

44. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

45. “Everything is practice.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Performance Quotes, Practice Quotes, Sports Quotes

46. “A good process produces good results.”

— Nick Saban

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes, Sports Quotes

47. “Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.”

— Alex Ferguson

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Competition Quotes, Determination Quotes

48. “Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.”

— Bill Belichick

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Performance Quotes, Character Quotes

49. “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Competition Quotes, Basketball Quotes

50. “Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge that. Because effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Workout Quotes