60 football phrases for those who are passionate about the best sport in the world

Life is like a football game, each move can define its trajectory.

Michael Johnathon

Make life a football game… Kick the sadness, dribble the difficulties and score goals with joy.

Nobody scores a goal sitting on the bench. In the game of life, you have to be active, on the field, taking responsibility for yourself.

Augusto Branco

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness of winning.

Skin

Scoring goals is like making love, everyone knows how to do it, but nobody does it like I do either.

Alfredo Di Stefano

In football, the worst blind person is the one who only sees the ball.

Nelson Rodrigues

No player is as good as all of them together.

Alfredo Di Stefano

The ball is the most jealous woman there is. If you don’t give affection, she will harm you. I love the ball and it reciprocates.

Neymar

Moment of difficulty we all go through, and in football it’s the same. It’s a cycle, the ball is round. One day it’s all right, the next day it’s bad.

Neymar

Football is passion and emotion above reason.

Football is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that.

Bill Shankly

Often it is the lack of character that decides a match. Literature, politics and football are not made with good feelings.

Nelson Rodrigues

Even football has a thing and I don’t.

Football is the opium of the people and drug trafficking in the media.

Millor Fernandes

If concentration won the game, the penitentiary team didn’t lose one.

João Saldanha

Life is like a football game, it has its rules.

If all the battles of men took place only on football fields, how beautiful wars would be.

Augusto Branco

Modern football is like naked. Everyone runs and no one knows where.

Football is very simple: whoever has the ball attacks. Those who don’t have it, defend it.

I mix poetry with cachaça and end up discussing football.

Vinicius de Moraes

In Europe football is entertainment between classes, in Brazil it is the people’s pain reliever.

I write life as if I were playing football.

Football is an art where in a second you can create a “masterpiece” or the fiasco of your life.

I’m so needy that if I was playing football and the referee said “You missed me”, I would hug him.

Life is a football game, the problem is that there is no break.

The boring part of discussing football, politics and religion isn’t the discussion itself, but the fact that it’s pointless to argue against fanatics.

If happiness could be summed up in a football match, the world would be a better place to live!

Between loving and being loved, I prefer to play football.

I was playing football, you shouted my name saying I’m your man, I interrupted the football match and gave you a kiss in the sunshine.

It is almost impossible to find rationality, intelligence and impartiality when it comes to football.

Frederico Spaniol

Football is not the people’s joy. The people who are the joy of football!

The difference between an eternal passion and the memory of a beautiful goal is that the memory of that goal lasts longer.

Football is not a game that you run after the ball, even the dog, cat or other animal does it. Football is knowing how to work on the ball with skill and daring through rules.

Football is not seen, not heard. Football feels!

People are confusing a heart with a soccer ball!

Football stadium bleachers are like Sunday mass – one sits and gets up waiting for God to score a goal to free the delirium.

Paulo Emílio Azevedo, poet of peace

God is a football referee who is never wrong in his decisions. He always hits everything and everyone.

Anything in your life is more important than football, but your life wouldn’t be the same without him.

The feeling for football is like an intense passion that increases with each passing day. Football is my life, my joy and also my sadness. Football will forever be my passion.

Life is like football, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose!

Sometimes our love relationship is like a football game: our team is better, plays better, spends all the time with the ball, but the opposing team scores the goal.

When it seems like a football team wants to disrupt your plans, remember: you are the coach of your life, so get on the field and win this game.

The people get drunk with illusion with football and carnival. These are your two dream sources.

Carlos Drummond DeAndrade

Love is like football, a box of surprises. One day you just want to be friends with one person, another day you realize you’re in love.

Love is like football: full of rules, offsides, kicks and balls out, but even so, there’s always a world of people cheering.

A life without music would be like a football match without a break. We need to disconnect for a while.

I came to realize that football is not just a sport but a way to unite nations, end wars, football is life and living with it is even better.

Today I’m like a football match: scoring a goal in the last minutes of the second half.

Life is like a football game, you can’t predict what will happen next.

In football, the goal is not just a ball swinging the net. It’s a hammock packing a passion!

Nothing, no title is more important than Vasco’s fans! The best and most passionate in the world!

Life is a football match. Be skillful and keep moving forward and the reward will soon come.

God gave me two pleasures: understanding football and humor; of television, there is a truckload of people who understand.

Chico Anysio

The striker’s best psychologist is the opponent’s net.

Galvão Bueno

The difficult thing, the extraordinary thing, is not scoring a thousand goals, like Pele. It’s scoring a goal like Pele.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

If insects played football, centipedes would make excellent center forwards and spiders would make excellent goalkeepers.

My heart explodes, in the greatest happiness, my São Paulo is beautiful, infecting and shaking this city!

Life is like a football game where it’s no use having possession of the ball and making hasty passes.

Corinthians is not a team that has a crowd, Corinthians is a crowd that has a team!

I love Flamengo as if it were a piece of the land where I was born.

Jose Lins do Rego