Soccer Quotes
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
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.
Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
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.
I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.
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.
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.
It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.
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.
Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
