"Play the Beautiful Game"
"The goal is winning, the focus is execution."
"To love winning is easy; to love the battle requires toughness."
"Players win games. Teams win Championships."
"Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought." Dennis Bergkamp
"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." Mia Hamm
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success" Henry Ford
"My heroes are and were my parents, I can't see having anyone else as my heroes" Michael Jordan
"Soccer is a sport for dreamer's. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears."
"Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success"
"Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster." Johan Cruyff
"If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later." Bob Paisley
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it" Knut K. Rockne
"True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.” Mia Hamm
"The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work." George Graham
"The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.” Anson Dorrance
"Champions are afraid of losing-everyone else is afraid of winning." Billy Jean King
"Organization unravels the mind."
"If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.” Bill Shankly
"Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball." Tommy Docherty
"A winner is a loser who was willing to fail and get up, fail and get up, fail and get up, fail and get up and win" Pete Zafra
"The future depends on what we do in the present" Mahatma Gandhi
"Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that." Pete Davies
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." Shakespeare
" A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle" Japanese Proverb
"The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game." Etoo
"Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever!" George Best
"To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed." Jose Mourinho
"I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I’m not mad, I’m just passionate." Thierry Henry
"Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams"
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." William James
"Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world" Ronaldo
"A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it."
"Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life." Eric Cantona
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryan
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.” Bill Shankly
"Without passion, you don’t have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion" Donald Trump
"Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory." Gandhi
"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work" Vince Lombardi
"If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing." Kyle Rote, Jr.
“What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular."
"You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their
minds so they never want to see you again."
Mia Hamm
"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play" Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year
“Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is playing simple football.” Johan Cruyff
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" Albert Einstein
"Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it." Ian Darke
"Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team" Buchholz and Roth
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog" Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes." Bill Shankly
"Some men succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to. " Greame Clegg
"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." Stan Smith
"Fail to prepare, prepare to fail" Roy Keane
In teamwork, silence isn't golden, it's deadly" Mark sanborn
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat" Hershel Walker
"The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief"
"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." Mia Hamm
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie
"Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball." Tommy Docherty
"Arguing with a fool proves there are two" Doris M. Smith
"There is no failure except in no longer trying" Elbert Hubbard
"Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball" Tommy Docherty
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all" Joe Namath
"Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God." Hugo Sanchez
"Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal, to move it along for the next generation.” Landon Donovan
"If you don't concede any goals you'll win more games than you lose." Wayne Bridge
"You've got to believe that you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out." Peter Shilton
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand." Alexander Graham Bell
"Pride, intense pride, that's what it all comes down to."
"We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other 3% that cost us the match." Ruud Gullit\
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary" Vidal Sassoon
"The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure." Edwin Louis Cole
"Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner." Johan Cruijff
"Winners make goals, losers make excuses"
"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it" Coach Lou Holtz
"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team" Lewis B. Ergen
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" Darrel Royal
"The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee." Paolo Rossi
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude." Thomas Jefferson
"It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0." Vahid Halilhodžić
"Second place in the World Cup is a complete failure. It's like you're chatting with a girl and she says you are second in her affections because she prefers someone else." Senate Aldo Rebelo
"We accomplish in proportion to what we attempt."
"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day." Neville Southall
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Napoleon Hill
"If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target." Fabio Capello
"Sometimes in football you have to score goals." Thierry Henry
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on" Thomas Jefferson
"If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal." Mark Lawrenson
"Fall seven times, stand up eight!" Japanese Proverbs
"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results"
"If it had gone in, it would have been a goal." Barry Davies
"You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot." Trevor Brooking
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity" Seneca
"The midfield are like a chef, trying to open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside." George Hamilton
"It was the hand of God." Maradona
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit" President Harry S. Truman
"If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be." Bill Shankly
"Reputation is for time, character is for eternity" J.B. Gough
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Herman Cain
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime" Babe Ruth
"Be consistently persistent" Dick Hannula
"The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed." Cantona
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game." Bill Shankly
"Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal, to move it along for the next generation.” Landon Donovan
"Never underestimate your power to change yourself" H. Jackson Brown
"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn vos Savant
"Everything is practice." Pele
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality" Joe Paterno
"Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny" George Dana Boardman
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory" Corneille
"I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life" Marcelo Balboa
"All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone" Greg Arnold
"Football is the opera of the people." Stafford Heginbotham
"Play with positive brutality" Dutch Soccer
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit" Vince Lombardi
"The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work" George Graham
"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny" Mahatma Gandhi
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