inspirational stories / quotes

 

Pele - The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.

How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term goals is a must. When planning out a soccer training regime, one must strive for realistic and consistent program that will diminish specific weaknesses. Broad versatility of soccer skills is the Nirvana of every dedicated trainee.

Eric Cantona - Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Eric Cantona - an artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

Roy Keane - United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: 'We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.'

David Beckham - You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.

Eto'0 - The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Kyle Rote, Jr. - If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.

George Graham - 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

Elbert Hubbard - The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Bill Shankly - 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.

Johan Cruyff - Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is playing simple football.

Pele - I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player.

Pele - 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.

Roy Keane - Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Bob Paisley - "If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later."

Dennis Bergkamp - "Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought."

Bill Shankly - "It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes."

Stan Smith - "Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

Mia Hamm - Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Pele - 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.

Anson Dorance - "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching"

Pele - "Everything is practice."

Tommy Docherty - Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

Ronaldinho - “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.”