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Soccer Champions Motivational Mind Quotes

"In the face of adversity, a strong mind becomes the ultimate weapon."
Pele

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
Jose Mourinho

"Visualization is a key part of my training. I imagine myself scoring goals and making a difference in every game."
Cristiano Ronaldo

"Visualize success and make it a reality."
Sam Kerr

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham

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

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
Mark Viduka

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.
Ronaldinho

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
Vinny Jones

It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.
Cristiano Ronaldo

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

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

You cant really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.
Bryon Butler

Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever!
George Best

"Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing – if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks.

Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualize myself scoring goals or doing well. You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory' before the game".

"I dont know if you'd call it visualizing or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

When I was younger, I used to visualize myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.  From 30 yards out, dribbling through teams.

You used to visualize yourself doing all that, and when you're playing professionally, you realise it's important for your preparation."
Wayne Rooney

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
Cristiano Ronaldo

It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.
Casey Korkus

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
Johan Cruyff

 

If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
Mia Hamm

I am here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
Ronaldo

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

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.
Mia Hamm

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
George Best

The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.
Anson Dorrance

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.
Jose Mourinho

 

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough."
Lionel Messi

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.
Eric Cantona

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett

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.
Pele

"Visualization is a crucial part of my game. I see myself making incredible moves and scoring goals before they happen."
Neymar

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez

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

Every disadvantage has got its advantage.
Johan Cruijff

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.
Zinedine Zidane

 

You've got to believe that you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
Harry Kewell

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
Maradona

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

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

 

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one. If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
Alex Ferguson

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

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
Jose Mourinho

We lost because we didnt win.
Ronaldo

"The mind is a powerful tool. Train it just like you train your body."
Manuel Neuer

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. Working from dawn till dust just to feed their young. There is no pressure in football
Jose Mourinho

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.
Eric Cantona

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you dont win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
Jose Mourinho

"We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world."
Cristiano Ronaldo

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you’re doing or learning to do."
Pelé

"Mental toughness is a never-ending pursuit."
Sam Kerr

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching."
Anson Dorrance

"I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."
Mia Hamm

"For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body."
Gary Neville

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