Motivational Soccer Quotes

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. - Lionel Messi

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.
- Pele

The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself.
- Neymar

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
- Sir Bobby Charlton

I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
- Lionel Messi

I don’t believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
- Roy Maurice Keane

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances.
- Franz Beckenbauer

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.
- Diego Maradona

When good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.
- Eduardo Galeano

A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.

Soccer isn’t the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community’s fabric, a repository of traditions.
- Franklin Foer

Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game – I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
- Lionel Messi

I told my players during the break: Since we’re here anyway, we might actually play a bit of football.
- Jurgen Klopp

I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.
- Abby Wambach

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
- Jose Mourinho

When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

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.
- Pele

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.
- Cristiano Ronaldo

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
- Luis Suarez

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
- Jose Mourinho

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.
- Cristiano Ronaldo

My boyfriend told me to choose between him and soccer… I’m really gonna miss him!

Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it thaught you.