Best Motivational Soccer Quotes to Remember Before a Game
The best motivational soccer quotes will inspire you even if you don't play soccer. They'll put a lump in your throat and make you pumped to be alive!
GODDAMN THIS WHITE SUPREMACIST PATRIARCHY! But God bless the United States women's national soccer team. They've won three Women's World Cups, including the first one; and four Olympic gold medals (including the gold medal from the first time it was an Olympic event). They're why I still play soccer to this day.
I still remember what it was like watching the Women's World Cup in 1999. It was such a tough match against the China team. It went into double overtime and then into penalty kicks. It was so stressful to watch that I hid behind the couch.
Brandi Chastain went up with nine kicks down. She used her left foot to fool the Chinese goalkeeper, scored the goal, and was so excited that she took her jersey off and fell to her knees clutching her jersey. And then the rest of the team ran up and started hugging her and jumping with glee.
I still get motivated watching the Brandi Chastain historic world cup kick. And when that clip fails to get me psyched for a game I read the best motivational soccer quotes to remember before a game.
“It’s that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.” — Kristine Lilly
This is one of the best motivational soccer quotes because it reminds me that it's not all on me. That takes the pressure off! It also reminds me to be grateful for my teammates, who are some of the strongest, most badass women I know!
“We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, ‘What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?’ She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.” — Abby Wambach
This is one of the best motivational soccer quotes because it takes me back to when I first fell in love with soccer. That love has stayed with me all these years because of all the badass women I've seen on the field. And as I get older, I wonder to myself, "Am I a badass woman in someone else's eyes?" I hope so. The only way I can deliver on that is by being the best I can be!
“I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.” — Abby Wambach
This is another one of the best motivational soccer quotes to remind you that you're part of the team. My high school soccer coach actually made us all run the length of the field after doing suicides just so we could feel a sense of gratitude that we've got someone to pass the ball to!
“Soccer isn’t brain surgery, have fun.” — Michelle Akers
Michelle Akers might not even know that this is one of the best motivational soccer quotes. You can't think while playing! You can't judge yourself because you'll never make your moves faster than you would if you just made your moves without thinking about them. Instinct is key! Soccer is a feeling. It's many feelings, actually. Sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's the deepest levels of joy I've ever known. But the feeling it feels like the most is freedom.
“Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren’t boys.” — Julie Foudy
Holy shit is this one of the best motivational soccer quotes or what?! It's one of the best inspiring quotes to reignite your motivationperiod! You can take your outdated conceptions of gender and use them to beat yourself to a bloody mess. Oh, I'm sorry, can you not handle female anger? Well, get used to it, bub, because the tone police lay down their arms and run the other way when they see this badass bitch coming! I know all the things women are expected to do at work but shouldn't and the things boys learn by age 5 that perpetuate rape culture, and I won't shut up about it until things change!
“Forget me. Forget my number. Forget my name. Forget I ever existed. Forget the medals won, the records broken and the sacrifices made. I want to leave a legacy where the ball keeps rolling forward, where the next generation accomplishes things so great that I am no longer remembered. So forget me, because the day I’m forgotten is the day we will succeed.” — Abby Wambach
OMG. Abby Wambach, I love you, but the lump you are putting in my throat and the tears welling up in my eyes are too much. This is to soccer quotes what Obama is to presidential farewell addresses. I would love—LOVE—to be this in someone else's eyes. A life worth living is one that's worth forgetting because it's overshadowed by all the success it inspires. I mean, COME ON!
“I worked on my weaknesses and made them my strengths.” — Sydney Leroux
This is one of the best motivational soccer quotes because it applies as much on the field as it does off. There's a reason why this sentiment has been expressed by everyone from Ernest Hemingway to Batman's father. You work on your weaknesses. You. Work. On. Your. Weaknesses. And they eventually become your strengths. That's beautiful, and it's true of even the worst things that have happened to us.
“Do what you love. If you love something, you aren’t going to care about the sacrifices you’re making to do whatever it is.” — Kelley O’Hara
Wow. It's true, you know? Your love folds those sacrifices into the process and redeems them as indispensable steps toward growth, flourishing, and appreciation. Really makes you think over your own life too, which is why this is one of the best motivational soccer quotes.
“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” — Mia Hamm
Of course, Mia Hamm has a bunch of the best motivational soccer quotes to her name. This one in particular just makes me appreciate how often I've been in the same position when no one else was looking. It's a rare type of person who can feel how you're feeling when they see you feeling how you feel. At that point a look can say it all. Besides, if you're that exhausted a look is all you can handle!
"No excuses. Play like a champion." — Kelley O'Hara
I've seen this quote so many times and only now did I realize why this is one of the best motivational soccer quotes: what makes you a champion isn't winning; it's not having excuses. Losing doesn't stop you from being a champion. You just keep playing! You keep working on your weaknesses, you keep sweating when no one's looking, and all the struggle and pain gets redeemed because you're doing what you love. That's what it means to be a champion!
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