We all love a football related quote.
Here are my top 20 favourite quotes from some of the greats… 👇
“I learned all about life with a ball at my feet”
– Ronaldinho.
“Football is played with your head. Your feet are just the tools.”
– Andrea Pirlo.
“Football is a part of I. When I play, the world wakes up around me.”
- Bob Marley.
“Football, bloody hell!”
- Alex Ferguson.
“Without football, my life is worth nothing.”
- Cristiano Ronaldo.
“If I had to make a tackle, I have already made a mistake.”
- Paolo Maldini.
“I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”
- Pele.
Journalist: “Jose, City had the ball for 90mins. 80% possession.”
Jose Mourinho: “They can take the ball home. I’ll take the 3 points.”
"If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing."
- Bill Shankly.
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there.”
- Brian Clough.
“Football is Freedom, a whole universe.”
- Bob Marley.
"Football is simple. But nothing is more difficult than playing simple football.”
- Johan Cruyff.
“When you enjoy what you do, you don’t lose your hair.”
- Jose Mourinho.
"Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring."
- Johan Cruyff.
"In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender."
- Johan Cruyff.
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
- Pelé.
“Some people think football 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.
“Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.”
- Carlo Ancelotti.
“Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.”
- Arsene Wenger.
“Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.”
- Pep Guardiola.
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