Top 1200 Football Clubs Quotes & Sayings

Football doesn't bother me. I just enjoy it. It's when you have to go to clubs and sing and do initiations and all that stuff. That's when I get nervous.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.

This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.

It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

There are not many better clubs to play football for than Liverpool.

I always want my old clubs to do well. But I have only one love in my life in football - my home club Chivas, in Guadalajara. The other clubs are my girlfriends.

Credit to all the clubs, if there are incidents anywhere I think the clubs are very quickly on that and are banning supporters who are making racial comments. I think clubs are very much on top of what they see.

With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat. We’re talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it happen? That was me.

English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action, laws and funding.

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

I would like football clubs to be more aware of what their philosophy is, then recruit managers who fit the profile that suits them.

Fans are so important to football clubs, and you have to respect that everyone has got an opinion, but we have got to do our stuff on the football pitch.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

The Women's Super League is the envy of the world in the women's game because the clubs, the Football Association and the media are so well aligned.

I was lucky enough to play for the top three Italian clubs during the golden era of Italian football, so I have no regrets.

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

Big, historic football clubs have the ability to come back, even when everything seems lost. There is a strong inner belief within every player and also the fans.

I know that a lot of German clubs are unhappy with the Premier League clubs' spending, but I think it is something good for all clubs in the end.

Jose has managed at some big, big clubs, and at all of those clubs, there is pressure, it comes with the territory. But he has a wonderful way of dealing with that pressure, and when you manage these sorts of clubs, you've got to be used to that.

I am always flattered to hear my name linked with different football clubs. That is good for your ego, but at the same time, I am happy here.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.

My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.

Football clubs need to have a better understanding of what the club stands for and how they go about thier business.

A lot of clubs have lost the perspective of what is a football club.

That is football. In the end, all clubs spend money.

I managed lots of clubs. I had more clubs than Jack Nicholson

My dad and my brother took me over to England a few times to train with various clubs. My brother basically ended up sending a CD to a few clubs of me playing football. That seems like a long time ago now, but it ended up signing for Reading.

I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

I would never speak about players at other football clubs - I think it's wrong. It's not my style.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I've been to some great clubs, great people, watched them training, getting a different view on football, and really enjoyed it.

I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.

When you have good players in your squad that means other clubs are looking to them as well. For me, it is a normal situation in football.

It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

When I left Liverpool, I could have stayed in England but that would have meant joining clubs that didn't play football - just a long-ball game.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

English football's history is so rich and the size of the clubs around, the so-called big six, are so big that it is difficult to break into that for a club like Leicester.

Champions League football in the Premier League - you're talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it's not something I think I'd get linked with.

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

I am glad to see there are some football clubs that are trying to change the trend and move it towards a British way of running clubs, obviously with a very strong Italian identity.

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people that would give me a shot were the gay clubs. Gay clubs were so open to me coming in and trying things out.

Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.

Chelsea is one of the biggest football clubs in the world.

With the big clubs embracing women's football and the professionalism you see at the likes of Liverpool, Birmingham, Arsenal and my club Chelsea, it's really impressive. We're making great strides.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

Big clubs with one rich owner have been one of the main changes in football since I started playing.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

It's not like I played my first football match in England. For me, football is pretty much the same everywhere; the ball is round, but maybe tactically, things are different than at other clubs I've played for.

Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.

The emotional compact between football clubs and their supporters is visceral and usually lifelong.

In football you need opponents, competition because if you are alone with two or three clubs controlling everything you don't have any competition.