Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Footballers - Page 6

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

I just believe in helping other people.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Some of the yellow cards I get are for tactical fouls, which is fair enough, but I don't like the others - the ones for protesting.

It is clear that if people know me through football, they would think I am one of the most hated players in football, that is clear.

My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline.

If you don't care about the guy next to you, one, you're a terrible teammate. Two, you're never gonna win.

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

To me, there's nothing like going up against a guy and making him lose. When you beat a guy so bad, whether it's a route or a block, there's nothing more enjoyable than that.

I see other athletes as inspiration, like Rafa Nadal, Pau Gasol, Fernando Alonso. I think they are great inspiration for youngsters and for everybody.

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.

I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.

Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.

There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.

Everything is not going to go right, not just on the field but also in business. There were times I was injured on the field and could not play for a year or more. It was easy to quit and say, "I can't do it anymore." It taught me I can bounce back. It's the same in business.

There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.

I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless.

I'm not a loud person or anything but when I play football I feel free; feel like I can do what I want when I'm out on the pitch.

The play-offs are the sexy way to get promoted, playing in front of 90,000 people at Wembley, but you always want to do it automatically. If you come first or second, ultimately you've been better than the other teams over 46 games.

The only thing I do is to try to play my own game and be myself.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

A World Cup without Argentina and without Messi would be a catastrophe.

You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You have never been broken. You are not in parts. These are just thoughts. These are just beliefs. Accept your self, where you are in this moment. Accept your wholeness. That is freedom.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

To all the kids who looked up to me, I’m truly sorry for letting you down, but I hope it’s helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare. There is no excuse for domestic violence, and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.

Pope Francis and I went to the same school.

Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

When I go to America, I'm fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there - to New York last October, November - I went and explored. I went to the rough areas - to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.

Aaron Rodgers, he throws that back-shoulder throw so well.

The journey has been long, fleeing a war, living in a refugee camp, coming to Canada is what we were dreaming as a family to get here. Now that we're here I'm excited that I'm a Canadian citizen.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

I could have sat on the bench for a third year but I moved to West Brom from Liverpool to play. I love Liverpool and I've played a lot of games in my career so if I wanted to have a comfy life, I could have stayed at Liverpool.

When it gets easy, I worry about things.

Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.

I'm definitely a closed book and that's extended through most of my life, not just football.

There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!

Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo has developed from a selfish goalscorer into someone who likes to pass the ball.

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.

Pierluigi Gollini is a highly-rated goalkeeper in Italy, he's young, a good shot-stopper, he comes for crosses, he's good with his feet.

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

You always want to end the year on a high note.

I never thought we would rise to the height where the salaries are today. The rules have changed an awful lot. That benefits the public. Let's put it this way. It makes the game a little more exciting is what I think players were trying to work for because there would be more scoring in the games.

I'm a believer in The Word, which says "God moves mountains."

I do know that there have been many Native people - I don't like to call them "Native Americans," I guess, definitely not "Indians" - I've seen and read a lot about there's a big number of Natives that don't mind the Redskins name and they actually embrace it. Although there are a number of groups as well that are opposed to it.

The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.

I think naturally I've been kind of a lead-by-doing guy. Just showing up to work every day. You never ask teammates something you wouldn't do yourself.

I often think about what I want my sons to fully comprehend in regards to how sport industry unfairly operates.

Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A

Part of the game is moving on. And you do.

Just keep taking care of my body and all of that. Take care of your body, stay healthy. You'll be alright.

We need to keep fighting for every ball.