BEST FOOTBALL QUOTES OF ALL TIME

“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.” – Joe Paterno

“You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.” – Scott Adams

“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.” – José Mourinho

“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

“Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Gary Player

“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant

“Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.” – Bill Shankly

“I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.” – Michael Jordan

“Football is like boxing, you have to be able to take a punch, get up off the canvas, and still win the fight.” – Richard Sherman

“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. I sacrificed a lot.” – Lionel Messi

“Every time I step onto the field, I play with the belief that I am the best, and I give everything I have to prove that.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

“In football, as in life, you have to make decisions and stick with them.” – Diego Maradona

“Some people believe football is a game of life and death. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING QUOTES

“Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god.” – Diego Maradona

“You can’t win anything with kids.” – Alan Hansen

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi

“Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.” – Johan Cruyff

“All I know is that I played, scored, and cried.” – Roberto Baggio

“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.” – Vince Lombardi

“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 Keane

“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” – Bob Knight

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” – Paul Brown

“Football doesn’t build character, it reveals character.” – Marv Levy

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I can assure you it’s much more serious than that.” – Bill Shankly