Football is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world’s most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal. May these Football Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.” Dennis Bergkamp
2. “I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it’s all about being happy and healthy.” Virgil Van Dijk
3. “Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.” Johan Cruyff
4. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” Diego Maradona
5. “If football has taught me anything it is that you can overcome anything if, and only if, you love something enough.” Lionel Messi
6. “Take the risk, or lose the chance.” Eden Hazard
7. “I have my life. I have my values. And compared with much of society, especially football, that is radical.” Kaka
8. “When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.” Zlatan Ibrahimovic
9. “I’m going to remember to have fun this time. Life is too short for the stress and the drama.” Romelu Lukaku
10. “If I have to make a tackler then I have already made a mistake.” Paolo Maldini
11. “I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.” Zinedine Zidane
12. “Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits, and get on with trying to win.” Lionel Messi
13. “You owe it to yourself to be the best you can be.” Christian Pulisic
14. “Don’t try to beat the goalkeeper. Try to destroy the goalkeeper.” Steven Gerrard
15. “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.” Ronaldinho
16. “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
17. “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.” Pele
18. “Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.”Virgil Van Dijk
19. “I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.” Paul Pogba
20. “If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.” Arsene Wenger
21. “It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.” Ronaldinho
22. “Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable!” Cristiano Ronaldo
23. “It sounds like a cliche, but without a strong group, you win nothing in football.” Kaka
24. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” Lionel Messi
25. “You only stop learning when you quit.” Ruud Gulli
26. “Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.” Cristiano Ronaldo
27. “Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.” Ronaldinho
28. “Keep working even when no one is watching.” Alex Morgan
29. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” Pele
30. “Some people think football [soccer] 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
31. “The smartest thing I did is I never gave up.” Ivan Rakitic
32. “I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.” Lionel Messi
33. “The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself.” Neymar
34. “I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.” Wayne Rooney
35. “Talent without working hard is nothing.” Cristiano Ronaldo
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