Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I need to spend some time at a club, but I also need to enjoy my football to play my best. I didn't lose my enjoyment at Inter. Sometimes I was disappointed, because every player wants to play, but I always did my best for Inter.

Messi the best player in the world by far. I don't think we'll ever see a player like him again.

At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn't do it. That was a lot to take. At Newcastle, the expectations to win a trophy were enormous. The No. 1 thing everyone up there thinks about is the football club.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

Transfer fees don't show which player is better. It's only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

I think it was everything about him: his work ethic, his desire to be the best football player that he can be. He just woke up and he was just Ray Lewis, so he did pretty much everything great. He was a great teammate.

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

I'm not necessarily a form player, more of an in-the-moment player.

I'm a confident player, I know I can score. I don't think anyone can guard me consistently off the dribble. But I'm a team player.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

I think the coach-player relationship is a two-way thing. You have to be willing to take suggestions as a player and vice versa.

This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

Vincent Janssen has come in and done very well. He's a great player and different type of player to me.

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

I just consider myself a player, a team player.

Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.

From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

I think that the problem for any player you want to select for England, not just in isolation, is that it'll be a concern if that player doesn't play for his team.

I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.

Dusty Rhodes was a great athlete. Actually, he was a baseball player as well. He played football but he played baseball. That was his number one sport. He wasn't always heavyset like he is. But Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream he just gets charisma.

As a professional player, I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player.

I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

When you look at what we want our individual player to represent from that makeup, if you will, we're looking for mentally and physically tough players who are smart and want to compete. And when you say smart, you're talking about situational awareness. Guys that are instinctual. That are smart football players.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

If the player performs well and helps us to achieve our goals, nobody will speak about the price of the player.

I think winning a championship, for me, it put things in perspective. You can either be a great player on a so-so team, or you can be a role player on a championship team, or, in an extreme case, a great player on a championship team.

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)

Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.

Bernard is a great player, a player for the Brazilian national team, and I also followed his progress with Atletico Mineiro.

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

The thing I like to do when I'm making records is to keep it exciting, as opposed to, 'There's a bass player, guitar player... ' Just a little variety.

That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.

Mario Gotze is a great player, but one of my favourites is Marco Reus, who is a fantastic player, and one of the very best.

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

Dhoni is a big player. He's achieved a lot as a player and as a captain.

Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.

When I first came to England I hated football and knew nothing about it. Watching 0-0s and 1-0s having come from Aussie Rules was just dull. The only player I had heard of was David Beckham. But when I was living in Leicester I started watching Match of the Day and really got into Chelsea.

People think this is easy to be a football player. They only see the summit but they don't see the ascent, which is far longer and tougher than the career peaks. And there are so few of us to reach the summits. Some might earn €305,000 per month but there are a lot more for whom life is hell.

Monmouth was important to me because that was the first stepping stone. I am very grateful to the Monmouth program for taking a chance on a four-year lacrosse player who had a year of eligibility left. It was an awesome experience to go back there and play football again, especially since it was close to home.

I don't think you're going to see any hockey player tell the media or anyone they're the best player in the world. It's just not who we are.

All the pain I had, it was not worth it. My ankle created so many problems, it affected my day-to-day living. But at that time football was my whole life. Now I am older, I have had a life without football. You can still have a good life - there is more than football.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.

I always told myself I was more than a football player, so every off season, I pushed myself to go outside the box and get a little bit better off the field. I dabbled in many business adventures to gain more real world experience.

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.

I don't think a player like Messi is a selfish player.