Top 100 Football Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.”

— Vince Lombardi

52. “Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.”

— Ray Lewis

53. “Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”

— Jim Harbaugh

54. “Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.”

— Ray Lewis

55. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”

— Terrell Owens

56. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

— Nick Saban

57. “Greatness is earned, not given.”

— J. J. Watt

58. “If you think you’re perfect already, then you never will be.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

59. “Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.”

— Bo Schembechler

60. “Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.”

— Tim Howard

61. “There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”

— Vince Lombardi

62. “Football is a part of me. When I play, the world wakes up around me.”

— Bob Marley

63. “We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

64. “Football, bloody hell!”

— Alex Ferguson

65. “Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.”

— Lionel Messi

66. “Football is Freedom, a whole universe.”

— Bob Marley

67. “That’s the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.”

— Pep Guardiola

68. “Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.”

— Johan Cruijff

69. “Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.”

— Johan Cruijff

70. “Without football, my life is worth nothing.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

71. “I don’t want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.”

— Iker Casillas

72. “I love football, football is my life.”

— Wayne Rooney

73. “A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don’t be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.”

— Pelé

74. “Gentlemen, this is a football.”

— Vince Lombardi

75. “I know who likes football likes me.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

76. “Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.”

— Swami Vivekananda

77. “Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

78. “I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”

— Lionel Messi

79. “There’s no doubt. It’s certain that I’ll be 100 percent.”

— Lionel Messi

80. “I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.”

— Pelé

81. “I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”

— Pelé

82. “When it’s too hard for them, it’s just right for us.”

— Marv Levy

83. “All I know of morality I learned from football.”

— Albert Camus

84. “I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful – and that’s it, basically. That’s why professional football exists.”

— Arsene Wenger

85. “One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

— E. M. Forster

86. “I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”

— Nick Hornby

87. “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”

— Bill Shankly

88. “Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...”

— Vince Lombardi

89. “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”

— Albert Camus

90. “If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.”

— Lou Holtz

91. “There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.”

— Bill Belichick

92. “No one has ever drowned in sweat.”

— Lou Holtz

93. “International football is the continuation of war by other means.”

— George Orwell

94. “Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.”

— Zinedine Zidane

95. “They say I couldn’t play football, I was too small. They say I couldn’t play basketball, I wasn’t tall. They say I couldn’t play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.”

— Lil Wayne

96. “Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.”

— Bill Shankly

97. “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”

— Vince Lombardi

98. “I’d rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie.”

— LaVell Edwards

99. “I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don’t, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.”

— Frank Zappa

100. “I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”

— Lou Holtz