Soccer Quotes
Browse these inspirational soccer quotes to help motivate and accelerate your game!
With the popularity of soccer rising in the U.S., it’s always motivating to look back at what the greats have said about the sport.
If you are a coach or parent, use these quotes to inspire and motivate your player or players. Words can be super powerful. Motivation coupled with action can make a player unstoppable.
Here is a collection of our favorite soccer quotes for all ages!
Inspirational Soccer Quotes
“You can overcome anything if, and only if, you love something enough.” – Lionel Messi
“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” – Mia Hamm
āSomething deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.ā – Lionel Messi
“When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.” – Diego Maradona
āIn football (soccer), the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. Thereās something greater than the result, more lasting ā a legacy.ā – Xavi
āAll good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.ā – Raul Lopez
“Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back.” – Tony Adams
“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.” – PelĆ©
“Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.” – Zinedine Zidane
āSurround yourself with good people. Surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better. If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you. You can control two things, your work ethic and your attitude about anything.ā – Ali Krieger
“Keep dreaming, even when people laugh at your dreams or tell you that they are impossible to achieve. Keep believing in yourself.” – Tobin Heath
āA champion is someone who does not settle for that dayās practice, that dayās competition, that dayās performance. They are always striving to be better. They donāt live in the past.ā – Briana Scurry
Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid.” – Steve Locker
āYou owe it to yourself to be the best you can be.ā – Christian Pulisic
“Soccer is simple. You just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice, and for every ball.” – Hristo Stoichkov
Keep working even when no one is watching.” – Alex Morgan
āIāve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.ā – Abby Wambach
āIāve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.ā – Cristiano Ronaldo
āTalent without working hard is nothing.ā – Cristiano Ronaldo
āMany people say Iām the best womenās soccer player in the world. I donāt think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.ā – Mia Hamm
āSuccess 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.ā ā Pele
āAll goalscorers go on droughts. It is how you cope with that. And it is not just about scoring, it is about what you bring to the team, bringing others into play and getting assists.ā ā Harry Kane
āEverything in my life has happened very early, personally and professionally. Iām always learning: I have to.ā ā Neymar Jr.
āThere is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.ā ā Neymar Jr.
āTake the risk, or lose the chance.ā ā Eden Hazard
āI donāt have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. Itās something I love doing.ā ā David Beckham
āSoccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.ā ā Johan Cruyff
āThe more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – PelĆ©
āGood soccer players need not be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases, skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.ā – Eduardo Galeano
āIt needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but thatās the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.ā ā Jurgen Klopp
āI donāt need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet, and Iāll show you what I can do.ā ā Lionel Messi
āI am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, improve, and evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that there are no limits to learning and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.ā ā Cristiano Ronaldo
Motivational Soccer Quotes
āKeep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.ā ā Theodore Roosevelt
āThe secret of getting ahead is getting started.ā ā Mark Twain
āThe hard days are what make you stronger.ā āAly Raisman
āDreams donāt work unless you do.ā ā John C. Maxwell
āIāve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Iāve lost almost 300 games. 26 times Iāve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Iāve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.ā ā Michael Jordan
āI now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.ā āMichelle Obama
āDonāt be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.ā ā John D. Rockefeller
āHard work beats talent when talent doesnāt work hard.ā ā Tim Notke
āIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.ā ā Napoleon Hill
āNo one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become āSuccessful.āā ā Jaymin Shah
āIām not in this world to live up to your expectations, and youāre not in this world to live up to mine.ā ā Bruce Lee
āWork like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.ā ā Mark Cuban
āI hated every minute of training, but I said, āDonāt quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.ā ā Muhammad Ali
āNever give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.ā ā Earl Nightingale
āNever regret anything that made you smile.ā āMark Twain
āSuccess is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasmā ā Winston Churchill
āDoubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. ā ā Jennifer Lopez
āWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.ā ā Aristotle
āIn the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.ā ā Albert Einstein
āI didnāt get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.ā ā EstĆ©e Lauder
āThe difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.ā ā Warren Buffett
āSome people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.ā ā Michael Jordan
āUnsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.ā ā Benjamin Hardy
āThe big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if youāre willing to work.ā ā Oprah Winfrey
āTo be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. Itās not about winning and losing; itās about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. Itās about embracing the pain that youāll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.ā ā Summer Sanders
āDoubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.ā ā Suzy Kassem
“Be so good they canāt ignore you.ā ā Steve Martin
āSuccessful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.ā ā G.K. Nielson
āIf you can dream it, you can do it.ā ā Walt Disney
āDo the best you can. No one can do more than that.ā ā John Wooden
āThere may be people that have more talent than you, but thereās no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.ā ā Derek Jeter
āIf your dreams donāt scare you, they are too small.ā ā Richard Branson
āSuccess isnāt always about greatness. Itās about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.ā ā Dwayne Johnson
āStop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.ā ā Tony Robbins
āIt is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all ā in which case, you fail by default.ā ā J.K. Rowling