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Serious Soccer Training: Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without proper soccer training a player will never reach his full potential. It is true that great speed would benefit someone who plays as a winger but would not be as useful for a goalkeeper. The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term goals is a must. When planning out a soccer training regime, one must strive for realistic and consistent program that will diminish specific weaknesses. Broad versatility of soccer skills is the Nirvana of every dedicated trainee.

~ Pele

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

~ Eric Cantona

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

~ Eric Cantona

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: 'We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.'

~ Roy Keane

You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.

~ David Beckham

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

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

~Etoo

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

~Stanley Rous, 1952

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.

~Anthony Burgess

Football is the opera of the people.

~Stafford Heginbotham, 1985

A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball.

~Soccer advertisement, published for the MetroStars Major League Soccer team, 1997

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

~Luis Suarez

If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.

~Kyle Rote, Jr.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

~Ondino Viera

To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.

~Paul Gardner

The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.

~Sandy Strang

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, 1997

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~Elbert Hubbard

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

~Bill Shankly

I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

- George Best

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

~George Best

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is playing simple football.

~Johan Cruyff

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

~Cantona

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player.

~Pele

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

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

~Roy Keane

"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

"If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later."

~Bob Paisley

"Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought."

~Dennis Bergkamp

"If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be."

~Bill Shankly

"It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes."

~Bill Shankly

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

~Stan Smith

"I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly overintellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time."

~Eric Cantona

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

~Mia Hamm

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

~Luis Suarez

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

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 vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching"

~Anson Dorance

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

~Bobby Charlton

The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.

~Helenio Herrera

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

~Bill Shankley

"Everything is practice."

~Pele

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

~Mia Hamm

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

~Tommy Docherty

Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.

~Hugo Sanchez

“I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.”

~Ronaldinho

"Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal ? to move it along for the next generation.”

~Landon Donovan

“I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.”

~Marcelo Balboa

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