Quotations and Soccer Tips

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When your feet won't take you any further, you should use your head. While it may not be the natural order of things, would it not be better to walk with one's head...than to think with one's feet? (René Daumal. Writer.)

In soccer, as in life, anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

A team’s true spirit and character are released, not when they’re winning, but when they’re losing

To be successful, you don’t have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The greatest quality of the greatest players is humility

An infamous quote.

When we're not practicing, remember, someone, somewhere is practicing and when we meet them, they will win.

An error doesn't become a mistake until we refuse to correct it.

Everything is relative. 'Something' is a fraction more than a 'little', but a 'little' is enormously more than 'nothing'.

Fun quotations for coaching youth players

A champion is someone who is bending over to exhaustion when no one else is watching

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary

Those leaders who give credit and take blame are more likely to be successful than those who take credit and give blame.

Happiness is seeing a ball rebound. There's nothing sadder than a flat ball.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something.

The best and faster way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Forgive yourself and try to forget the mistake.

Excellence is a habit.

The greatest mistake players can make, is not to shoot when they have the chance.

The ball moves faster than you can run so, use your brain.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended.

A Coach is someone who always makes you do what you don’t want to do, so you can be who you’ve always wanted to be.

Not everyone who practices everyday is a Champion, but everyone who is a Champion practices everyday.

To be the best, you have to beat the best.

Good enough is not good enough.

Being able to juggle doesn't mean you're a soccer player, but if you can't, you're not a soccer player.

Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)

Practices are for learning, games are to see if we've learned.


	Soccer is leadership, belonging, organization, ownership, respect, sacrifice and challenge put together with the glue of discipline.