Soccer Quotes

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
- Mia Hamm

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
- George Best

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

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
- Johan Cryuff

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
- Mia Hamm

We lost because we didn't win.
- Ronaldo

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
- J. B. Priestley

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
- Anthony Burgess

To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.
- Paul Gardner

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
- Bill Shankly