Top 1200 English Football Quotes & Sayings

You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.

Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

English football is changing: the champions don't play a 'typical' English style, for example. But in general, it's quicker than in Spain: more counter-attacks, more open, more direct.

I like English football, Spanish football, Italian football. I like all of them.

Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.

Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.

English football is a type of football which excites me a lot.

I like English football a lot.

I'd always loved English football.

A lot of the demos I write are all in English, so releasing music in English isn't translating to English, it's just keeping them in English.

English football is very strong physically, but Spanish football is more technical.

I love English football.

I like English football so much - it is very strong.

I think my style of play would be appreciated in England, but as Spanish football is more technical, rather than box-to-box like in English football, my physical style is highlighted much more.

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

I was always excited by English football.

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, they showed me what is English football. It's tough, it's difficult and they showed me how life is like in professional football.

I love watching English football. It's the league I most enjoy.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

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.

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.

All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.

My process to adapt to English football has been very good.

I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.

English football is a lot different to Spanish football but Soldado is an international for Spain, he is a player who has become accustomed to playing against great teams - and he has always scored goals.

I am fascinated by English football.

I love English football because it's real football. I love everything that surrounds it. The public, the atmosphere, the preparation.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

I know that English football and the Premier League is the best.

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

I follow English football a lot and Ancelotti.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

I'd like to play in English football, especially for Manchester United.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

There is a great deal of fair play in English football.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

English football, especially Premier League football, is different to most football on the continent.

Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it's more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don't think the game will stay that way.

I always say the Premier League is the best in the world, and I still feel it is an honour to be playing here, but I think English football suits my game. Football is more physical here; the ref is not whistling every foul.

I'm confident I can be a success in English football.

I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton.

Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.

I love English, Spanish, and German football.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

I enjoy the honesty of English football, because nobody gives up, and almost all the best players are here. Italian football is at the bottom because of all those scandals. Their league is not very interesting.

I like many things in English football - everyone lives and breathes it here. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't like Spanish football.

Of course I support England - and I follow Birmingham. I am an avid football fan, and obviously, I have a connection with Arsenal, so I like to watch them, too. I think anyone who is English follows the men's team and wants them to do well, and I'm an avid follower of any football, really.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

It's very tough in the U.K. For me, it was totally different. English football and French football are not the same.

Ghanaians and English people enjoy football the same.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

English football is really suited to me.