Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Footballers - Page 2

I found a new love of the game, and a new confidence and self-awareness of what I can bring to the game.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Football is something I've always dreamed of, it has always been my life.

So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

Suarez and Neymar play the way they play because of him. They are great players but they are made greater by Messi.

Covid time was not a fun time, I'll say that much. There was probably a week and a half there that was pretty miserable. And obviously I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Everyone looks up to Lionel Messi, but I think I've got to go for Juan Mata. He's someone that I've always looked up to.

I've got to try and create the best life I can for my baby and my family, so yeah, that motivates me.

The goalkeeper is very, very important, as much as a striker. Anyone who wants to win a title has to have a goalkeeper.

I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.

The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.

Each player has to dedicate himself to serve his motherland.

If you trust in your ability, things will work out well.

I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.

I'm a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that's how they want to perceive me, then so be it - but they don't know who I am.

The NFL is a brotherhood - if you think about all the millions of people that live in America and there's 1,900 people in the NFL. That's not that many, so everybody knows each other.

You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.

I'm proud to say I've done something for the good of football. I don't compare myself to anyone.

I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that’s what scares me about the game. I’m a Baptist, but I’m also a quarterback killer, and I ain’t praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.

To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

I played United's reserves for a few years and I wanted to take that next step, which was a loan move.

You have to believe in the unrealistic to do something extraordinary - to create a miracle.

If I lived my life over again I would stay in the countryside. I prefer the countryside, the milking of the cows and the sheep.

As a young boy growing up it was my dream to play for Australia and to pull on the famous green and gold shirt to represent my country. To have been given the opportunity to not only fulfil that dream, but to have done it 79 times, and many of which as captain, makes me incredibly proud and thankful.

Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again.

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

Football is easy; I’ve done this since I was a baby. To me, that’s not success. Success to me is being a world changer…I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.

I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American. I think that's what makes this country. To me, justice means the innocent should be found innocent. It means that those who do wrong should get their due punishment. Ultimately, it means fair treatment. So a call for justice shouldn't offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn't warrant an apology.

You've got to dream. You've got to believe, that's what I've done all my life. I'm rolling with it at the minute. It seems like it's not stopping. Who knows where it will end?

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

Never be afraid to do what's right. If no one ever says anything, nothing ever changes.

The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

I had a DVD and I think it was called 'Newcastle United: Flying High' in 2002 or 2003. I used to watch that all of the time, I think it was the year Shearer scored that famous volley against Everton.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

Four Very Powerful Words to say to your child: I Believe in you!

Today is a good day to be a GIANT!!! Hell everyday is a good day to be a GIANT!! Y'all have a blessed day

Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don't know the offside rule.

No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the best man for a goal if we needed one.

I have a lot of doubters. I use that as motivation.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

Sometimes people say to me that I celebrate over the top, but when you score, the emotion... you just can't control it. It's the same with owning a horse that wins.

I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife.

To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances

For me it was never a question either, I wanted to stay in United and believe very much in what we have going on and that is also why I signed a new contract. I love to represent United and to wear that shirt every day.

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

Safety isn't expensive, its priceless.

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

I honestly cannot explain why my relationship with fans is so strong but, possibly, it's due to the way I see football. I have always seen it as the result of great sacrifice, sacrifices you make every day for the victories, and hard work.

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.