“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.”
— Edson Arantes do Nascimento
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“Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a lifetime.”
–Unknown Author
“Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can’t win.”
— Unknown Author
“It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.”
— Vahid “Vaha”Halilhodžic’ (former Bosnian football player and current manager of the Algerian national football team)
“Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they’d stop fighting for it.”
— Unknown Author
“How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?”
— Desmond Mpilo Tutu
“A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.”
— Arsène Wenger
“Every defeat is a victory in itself.”
— Francisco Maturana GarcÃa
“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.”
— Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
“The thing about football… the important thing about football… is that it is not just about football.”
— Sir Terence David John “Terry”Pratchett
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