Quotes on Soccer Football

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

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.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

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

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.