Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

I like to chip in with goals because I'm an attacking player, and that's what an attacking player should do.

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

A good player is a good player, it's just that we cannot afford signings that do not work.

You hear it in the great musicians, whether it's a drummer or a horn player or a guitar player - you hear them take those breaths. You can feel that there's something they're trying to tell you.

Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.

I really want to get involved in football again at some point. I know I'm getting older, but my life has just turned out a different way after I retired from football.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.

If you ask me how did I do at United, I will say it was my best year ever, given the circumstances I was working under. We played football that was quite alright. But it's not football that is appreciated in England.

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.

I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.

If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was coming second.

I sometimes get frustrated with how important Dallas Cowboys' football is to people. It's extremely important to me, too, but football is what I do.

I'm definitely not a track guy playing football. I'm a football guy that just happens to jump really far.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

I loved playing football with my brothers. I would go to school as well, but I loved football, so I played it a lot when I was a kid.

You can play football in Bayern, in Barcelona, in Manchester, in London, wherever. In the end, it's football, and you want to play with the best.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

I've no problem with Neil Lennon. I'm thrilled for him to be interested in me. He tried to sign me for Bolton but football is football.

When you have the best player, you can do a lot of things. The best player can usually back it up, too.

Being in the Hall of Fame is where any player wants to be at the end of his career. It's somewhat of a last step for a player in terms of their career, and it's a place where you'll always be remembered for what you accomplished.

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

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

In Dutch football you see a lot of individual quality, but in American football it's really about teamwork. That really appeals to me.

It's not common for your best player to also be your most unselfish player.

For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I've ever seen.

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

We didn't have football boots, and we used a broken tennis ball instead of a football. I didn't use a proper ball until I was 11.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those grinders getting eight to 10 rebounds. I would've been like Kobe and been in the gym five to seven hours a day and never missed a 10-foot jump shot. I would've been a great role player for a team.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.

Some referees have to think about treating every player the same, even if it's Ronaldinho or another player from a Premiership club. It doesn't matter how good you are: you have to be treated the same.

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.

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.

Every player that comes at Juventus becomes better; every player that comes wins trophies.

Europe is leading the world in the sport of football. I want to utilize my experience from Europe to support the development of football in Asian countries.

As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

Everything is always equal between every player; no one is ahead of anyone. Sometimes one player plays, then others play. It's normal at every club, not just Barca.

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.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.