Famous Football Inspirational Quotes: The FIFA World Cup is a professional association football tournament held between national football teams. Organized by FIFA, the tournament, held every four years, was first played in 1930 in Uruguay, and has been contested by 32-teams since the 1998 event. The tournament is contested with eight round-robin groups followed by a knockout round for 16 teams. The defending champions are the French national football team, who defeated Croatia 4–2 in the 2018 FIFA World Cup final. The event is scheduled to take place under a reduced length, from 20 November – 18 December in Qatar. Being held in Qatar, it is the first World Cup tournament to be held in the Arab world.
Football is littered with great quotes from footballers, managers, and pundits. Here are 10 of the most famous football quotes:
Football Inspirational Quotes
Famous Football Inspirational Quotes
- I learned all about life with a ball at my feet – Ronaldinho
- The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning – Pele
- You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it – Lionel Messi
- I don’t have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It’s something I love doing – David Beckham
- When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success – Diego Maradona
- The first 90 minutes are the most important – Bobby Robson
- I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder – Wayne Rooney
- I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet – Zinedine Zidane
- There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true – Neymar
- Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it – George Halas