Radio Maximum has collected a selection of the footballer’s apt quotes about life, love and football. Read and learn more about your favourite sportsman!
A selection of David Beckham’s apt quotes
- “Dreams come true if you not only dream but do everything you can to realise them.”
- “In football it’s very important to have good hair because a lot of people, a lot of girls with cameras come to look at you. The popularity of the game depends on your appearance.”
- “Hard work is my talent. I wasn’t always the best player, but I worked the hardest.”
- “In 1996, Harry Neville and I were watching the first Spice Girls video on TV. I turned to him and said, ‘Have you seen that girl? I’m going to marry her.” (on future wife Victoria Adams)
- “I don’t do things by half measures. When I make up my mind about something, I walk away definitively.”
- “I trust my wife 110 per cent. When people call Victoria a ‘man in a skirt’ ‘I’m only happy about it’.”
- “Family is everything to me. It’s my main support and my main motivation.”
- “I’ve noticed that it’s harder for me to wake up early in the morning now. Maybe-it’s because of age, or maybe it’s because I already have three sons.”
- “I always tell my kids that the most important thing is respect.”
- “Everyone has hard times. You have to find the strength to get through them.”
- “My passion for football started when I was only three years old and it has only grown stronger since then.”
- “Everyone has the ability to express their feelings, my way is tattooing.”
- “Success for me is when your kids say you are a good father”.
- “The rules of football are very simple: if it moves, kick it, if it doesn’t move, kick it until it moves.”
- “Age is just a number. You can keep doing what you love if you believe in it and work on yourself.”
- “People look at my tattoos – there are a lot of religious images – and then they ask, ‘I guess you’re a very religious person?’ I respect all religions, but I can’t identify with any: I just try to live by my conscience and respect people.”
- “There’s always pressure, but once you get on the pitch, the rest of it takes a back seat.”
- “Players like Ronaldo and Messi don’t come out of nowhere. They work hard. That’s what I try to explain to my own and other kids: these players only perform so well because of hard work.”
- “At Manchester United I had to work hard every day to fulfil my contract. Now in English football it’s different: you’ve played ten games in the Premier League and you’re already driving a huge car and throwing money around. Maybe it sounds too old-fashioned, but it annoys me”.