These are the Best Soccer Quotes
 

  • When you play for the team, you'll never be alone. John McCutcheon (songwriter)
     

  • Defeeters Coach: "Good players practice until they get it right. Great players practice until they can’t get it wrong."
     

  • "Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. Just do it." -Nike Ad
     

  • A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ... being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play. 
    J. Mourinho
     

  • "The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen."  Nike
     
  • "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."  Michel de Montaigne
     
  • "The beauty of soccer is that every player gets to be the quarterback when the ball is at their feet", Lori Walker, NBC Analyst in the 2004 USA-Germany Olympics semi-final game.
     
  • "They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them . . . you show them the reasons. NFL Green Bay Packer coach Vince Lombardi
     
  • "No, I can't really remember practicing in my spare time. It's easier to remember the times I didn't practice, and most of those were when I was watching." Pele
     
  • "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."
     
  • "1 goal, 10 assists."  Adidas commercial on USA Women's World Cup Soccer Team
     
  • To be a concert pianist, you need a tuxedo, a grand piano, a top notch agent, and many other things, but it's all a waste without technique. You have to be able to play piano. Similarly, you need knowledge of the game, tactics, etc., but it's all a waste if you can't control the ball. Technique, technique, technique. Unknown
     
  • "The rules of soccer are simple. If it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does." Peter Woosnam
     
  • Understanding that most of the game has nothing to do with kicking a ball, is one step closer to understanding the game. Umbro Ad
     
  • Our beautiful game is art, disguised as a sport. Unknown
     
  • Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer, football coach
     

  • The best rewards come when you risk the most.  Sometimes the risk is its own reward. Doogie Howser M.D. (1/23/91)
     

  • "Nobody ever drowned in sweat!"  Kelly Marshall
     
  • "Good, better, best. Never rest till good be better and better be best!"
     Plum High School Swim Team
  • "You can't possibly hit the ball if you are thinking about all the possible ways you could miss."  Unknown
  • "Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years that they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance is merely the demonstration of their championship character." - T. Alan Armstrong
  • "Hard training, easy combat; easy training, hard combat." - Russian General Marshal Suvorov
  • "DO or DO NOT. There is no TRY" - Jedi Master Yoda (Star Wars)
  • "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
  • "I don't build character in people, I eliminate those that don't have it." - Vince Lombardi
     
  • "Soccer is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening--it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented." - unknown
     
  • It's not about beating the other guy, it's about having fun. But nothing is more fun than beating the other guy. Marc Crawford - hockey coach
     
  • Soccer is a very simple game, it's about space. If your team has the ball, create space. If your opponents have the ball, deny space. Ken Gamble
  • "When you are doing what you love to do, no one has to motivate you. Passion drives Perfection."
     
  • “The soccer of the past we have to respect, the soccer of today we must study, and the soccer of the future we should anticipate.” Bora Milutinovic
     
  • “The best advice I could give to young players is to make use of every minute and don’t hide in a box that others have constructed for them.” Michael Jordan
  • “Ball control is the most important skill a young player could learn. Controlling the ball will simply make the game easier to play and open up more options instantly. The great thing about practicing ball control is that there are many different body parts and ways to control the ball that could prove beneficial in a game. It’s the single skill I find myself doing to this day on the practice field. I look for two things when I am controlling the ball: I find the easiest way to control the ball and I control the ball in the direction that will make my next pass as simple as possible.” Claudio Reyna, Manchester City and Captain of the US Men’s National Team
     
  • You’re gonna make mistakes, it’s what you do after those mistakes that really matters.  Brandi Chastain
     
  • We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player. Bob Knight
     
  • You only win or lose by one goal - no matter how many go in.  (A better way of thinking about games where the score is lopsided.)
     
 

The Offside Rule - Explained for Women

You're in a shoe shop, second in the check-out line for the sales register. Behind the saleslady on the display is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you absolutely must have.

The female shopper in front of you has seen them and is also eyeing them with desire.

Both of you have forgotten your purses.

It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes.

The sales clerk remains at the register, waiting.

Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma.

She prepares to throw her purse to you.

If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes.

In a pinch, she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, while it is in flight you could slip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes.

Always remember that until the purse has actually been thrown, it would be just plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper.


I saw this posted on the Georgia Soccer Forum in "British" English and I took the liberty to translate some terms to "American" English. Ken Gamble
dsports@hiwaay.net

A Soccer Parenting Thought For The Day

A mother was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her teenage son. Suddenly, the boy bursts into the kitchen.

"Careful! CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my goodness!

You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK!

Careful! ... CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL!

You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY?

Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"

The mother stared at him. "What's wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"

The son calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm trying to play soccer.

To Do Today: Please forgive your parents - we know not what we do!

Thought from Claudio Reyna, US World Cup Captain,

“For some reason, adults – some who can’t even kick a ball – think it’s perfectly okay to scream at children while they’re playing soccer.

How normal would it seem if a mother gave a six-year-old some crayons and a coloring book and started screaming?

“Use the red crayon! Stay in the lines! Don’t use yellow!”

"You think that child would develop a passion for drawing?"

"Most important, parents must realize that playing sports is a way for children to express themselves.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
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