Soccer is a sport that thrives on passion, teamwork, and an unwavering will to win. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting out, these motivational quotes can help you dig deep, find your focus, and dominate the pitch:

Soccer Motivational Quotes

1. “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.”
— Pelé

2. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
— Pelé

3. “I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.”
— Abby Wambach

4. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
— Vince Lombardi

5. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
— Lionel Messi

6. “I don’t believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.”
— Roy Keane

7. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill

8. “The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”
— Mia Hamm

9. “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”
— Les Brown

10. “I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.”
— Cristiano Ronaldo

11. “A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better.”
— Briana Scurry

12. “Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
— Pelé

13. “Every time I went away I was deceiving my mom. I’d tell her I was going to school, but I’d be out on the street playing football. I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”

— Pelé

14. “To be the best, you have to learn from the best.”
— Cristiano Ronaldo

15. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
— Kobe Bryant

16. “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.”
— Ronaldinho

17. “There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.”
— Neymar

18. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.”
— Diego Maradona

19. “It is not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that matters.”
— Paul “Bear” Bryant

20. “Talent without working hard is nothing.”
— Cristiano Ronaldo

21. “Play for the name on the front of the shirt and they’ll remember the name on the back.”
— Tony Adams

22. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
— Jimmy Johnson

23. “You can’t score a goal if you don’t take a shot.”
— Johan Cruyff

24. “If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”
— Arsène Wenger

25. “Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.”
— Johan Cruyff

26. “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
— John Wooden

27. “The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.”
— Sepp Herberger

28. “In football (soccer), the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.”
— Nelson Falcão Rodrigues

29. “Keep working even when no one is watching.”
— Alex Morgan

30. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
— Sir Ken Robinson