futbol skills top Top 100 Famous Football Quotes Ever Football is littered with great quotes from footballers, managers, and pundits. Here are 100 of the most famous football quotes: 10 Inspirational Quotes “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet” – Ronaldinho “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pelé “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” – Lionel Messi “I don’t have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It’s something I love doing.”- David Beckham “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” – Diego Maradona “The first 90 minutes are the most important.” – Bobby Robson “I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.” – Wayne Rooney “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.” – Zinedine Zidane “There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.” – Neymar “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas  10 Thought-Provoking Quotes “If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all” – Arsene Wenger “To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.” – Johan Cruyff “Behind every kick of a ball, there has to be a thought.” – Denis Bergkamp “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.” – Sepp Herberger “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” – Pelé “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.” – Bill Shankly “Football is played with your head. Your feet are just the tools.” – Andrea Pirlo “Every disadvantage has got its advantage.” – Johan Cruyff “Football is the ballet of the masses.” – Dmitri Shostakovich “Every defeat is a victory in itself.” – Francisco Maturana García  10 Amusing Quotes “We don’t want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk does not play football at this level.” – Bobby Robson “I couldn’t be more chuffed if I was a badger at the start of mating season.” – Ian Holloway “If you eat caviar every day it is difficult to return to sausages.” – Arsene Wenger “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.” – Gary Lineker “Dilly ding dilly dong” – Claudio Ranieri “Sometimes maybe good. Sometimes maybe ****.” – Gennaro Gattuso “Do I not like that” – Graham Taylor “Why do you want Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?” – Jack Walker “I think you are an ostrich.” – Nigel Pearson “That lad must have been born offside” – Alex Ferguson 10 Unintentionally Funny Quotes “When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.” – Lawrie McMenemy “Sandro’s holding his face. You can tell from that it’s a knee injury.” – Dion Dublin “Frank Lampard still has the same legs he had five years ago.” – Ray Wilkins “We must have had 99 percent of the game. It was the other three percent that cost us the match.” – Ruud Gullit “I’m 30 now, but back when I was 19…that’s seven years ago.” – Lee Bowyer “I don’t believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I’m scared in case something will happen if I don’t do them.” – Michael Owen “Well, Clive, it’s all about the two M’s—movement and positioning.” – Ron Atkinson “I’ve had 14 bookings this season—eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.” – Paul Gascoigne “They’re the second-best team in the world, and there’s no higher praise than that.” – Kevin Keegan “One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.” – Alan Shearer 10 Brutally Honest Quotes “Aim for the sky and you’ll hit the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.” – Bill Shankly “I wouldn’t say I was the top manager in the business but I would say I was in the top one.” – Brian Clough “I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.” – Arsene Wenger “I’ve never played for a draw in my life.” – Alex Ferguson “To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.” – Jens Lehmann “The best team did not win this match.” – Jose Mourinho “I want to talk about facts.” – Rafa Benitez “You can’t win anything with kids.” – Alan Hansen “ I will love it if we beat them. Love it.” – Kevin Keegan “He will go right to the very top.” – Harry Redknapp 10 Zlatan Ibrahimovic Quotes “What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.” “When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari.” “I won’t be the King of Manchester, I will be the God of Manchester.” “A World #india #emniyetkemeri #footballshorts #envivo #sarkar #surkkhan