Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Football runs in my blood, and I did really want to play football.

Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

I love playing football and being in teams that have the ball and play good football.

Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

I have always been in love with football. As a child, I started playing football.

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.

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

Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

Football is football. I've been playing the same game for 25 years.

When you're younger, it's about 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

A lot of the things that I put before football, was really not fun anymore without football.

I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.

My first love is football. When I get the chance, I play football for fitness.

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

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

Steven Gerrard is the best player I have played with throughout my career; therefore, my ideal player would be very like him.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Well, I wanted to play football and I chased football for a little while.

I have a tremendous respect to all French Federation of Football football teams, players, and supporters.

I play football because I love the sport so much and for the sake of playing football.

Fans think that we're, like, football 24/7. We're all about life after football, too.

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

I wanted to play football and wear the Indian jersey, but there was no women's football team.

The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

I have respect for Pep and what he won, and what he did for football because he changed some mentalities in football.

I have had a craze for football since my schooldays; more than cricket I love football.

I grew up playing football. I'm a huge hockey and football fan.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

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

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

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

If a player fails to perform in four or five consecutive matches, he should be dropped irrespective of whether he is a senior or a junior player.

In training and at the club, players know that the player is good. You notice when the guy arrives, who's the ace, who's the player who maybe can't take the level.

Administrators guide players and I have played for such a long time, I understand how it feels as a player. You can say I am a player's administrator.

I think the No. 9 will always be in football. You need the proper No. 9s in football; that's my opinion.

I didn't go into football to earn money. It was because I liked playing football.

Football does not stop. Spanish football is proud of its past, but we will look to the future.

Football's football, it can change very quickly. I know that, I've experienced that many times.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

For me, football is football. I'm a fan; I'm passionate. I feel lucky to be in the position that I am.

Football is a simple game. It is not difficult to play football: just pass the ball around.

Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

Turkish people live football. Football is a passion of theirs. They demonstrate it with love and affection for their team.

I love to play football. Why would I run away from playing football?

Football is like my family: everything. It's my dream, what I have always wanted to do and without football I'm not happy.