Some famous Soccer Quotes

“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”

Bill Shankly

English soccer manager.

“The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does.”

Phil Woosnam

Welsh soccer player and manager.

“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.”

Pele

Brazilian soccer player, given the title of Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee.

“God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn’t.”

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player, received the people’s choice FIFA Player of the Century Award

“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

Scottish soccer player and manager.