Top 40 Soccer Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Ronaldinho

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

2. “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

Also featured in: Sports Quotes, Teamwork Quotes, Football Quotes

3. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

— Lionel Messi

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

4. “Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes

5. “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, Football Quotes

6. “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

Also featured in: Sports Quotes, Teamwork Quotes

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

— Mia Hamm

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Grit Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

8. “Maybe they hate me because I’m too good!”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

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

9. “No individual can win a game by himself.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Competition Quotes, Teamwork Quotes

10. “I’m not worried. My time will come.”

— Freddy Adu

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes

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

— Lionel Messi

Also featured in: Football Quotes

12. “Everything is practice.”

— Pelé

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

13. “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

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

14. “Keep working even when no one is watching.”

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Practice Quotes, Habit Quotes

15. “If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”

— Arsene Wenger

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes, Don't Give Up Quotes

16. “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, Football Quotes

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

— Zinedine Zidane

18. “You will go through tough times, it’s about getting through them.”

— David Beckham

Also featured in: Stay Strong Quotes

19. “My heroes were always soccer players.”

— Ronaldinho

20. “I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes, Joy Quotes

21. “Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.”

— Dennis Bergkamp

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

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Football Quotes

23. “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

24. “All human history moves towards one great goal.”

— James Joyce

25. “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

— Vince Lombardi

26. “The great thing about him is that he will not quit.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Competition Quotes, Quitting Quotes

27. “The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

28. “I’d rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I’d rather play soccer than go to the doctor. I’d rather play Hurk than go to work. Hurk? Hurk? What’s Hurk? I don’t know but it MUST be better than work!”

— Shel Silverstein

29. “The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”

— Bill Shankly

30. “Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don’t want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.”

— Jose Mourinho

31. “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

32. “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.”

— Pelé

33. “They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.”

— Brian Clough

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Motivational Quotes, Funny Office Quotes

34. “When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

35. “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

Also featured in: Football Quotes

36. “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

37. “I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

38. “I don’t know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It’s a dream.”

— Zinedine Zidane

39. “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”

— Pelé

40. “After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That’s how highly they rated him.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo