Top 533 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soccer players - Page 2

People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.

Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.

Life is a journey that have a lot different path, but any path u choose use it as your destiny.

Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.

Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.

You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet.

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?

As they say - a bird in the hand is worth one in the bush.

SEX! Now that I have your attention... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you.

I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.

I’ve grown a lot as a player. I learned a lot, and I just have to keep building on that.

As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right.

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do.

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.

Jealously is more common than loyalty.

We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet.

Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.

Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.

I actually had to get two fillings. Yeah, I swear. My teeth had been bugging me because I had been eating so much junk food on the road. I was the worst on teh team because I always had a bag of candy with me. I never had any cavities before, but yesterday, I took two for the team.

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

I'm still going to enjoy my life off the pitch and I don't think that has interfered with my life on it. In still playing, my body does not allow me to do some of the stuff I did before. The reality is I can't do the two. But I will still go out for a meal and a glass of wine and smoke a cigarette if I feel like it.

Life is only complete when your loved ones know you. When they know your true feelings, when they know who and how you love. Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret.

People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.

Raúl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional – one of the best to emerge from our country. His dedication, discipline and talent were superb. To talk about Raúl is to talk about a thoroughbred striker. He is, perhaps, one of the last true center forwards produced by El Salvador.

Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

Ultimately the presence of other well known players is driving us to build a more compelling, innovative product.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry

Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied to current thimerosal use in vaccines, lead to the conclusion that thimerosal completely inhibits phagocytosis in blood, one of the body's most vital immune defenses!

The darkness has departed and the night stars have passed by, you have touched my life like never before and I cannot stop thanking God for you in my life. Have a great day!

Get your body out of the way and let your spirit soar!

We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game. I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence is a very common and often very treatable condition.

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.