Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I will always remain a fan of Pescara. My time there was crucial to grow and improve as a player. It was my launchpad to top football.

Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

My first season in English football was very special. I hope to go on to achieve even more as a Chelsea player.

Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully.

As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor, that dream of playing the Super Bowl... I was never going to lose that.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.

My father never bragged on me as a football player or when I started ! wrestling. But I always knew he was there if I needed him.

You can learn a lot in the Europa League or from playing different teams from across Europe, and European football has improved me as a player.

I want people to see me as a two-way player. A defensive player and an offensive player.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

Liverpool are known for this 'rock and roll' football. I think I've adapted well to this even if, as a player, I like to hold onto the ball longer.

David Beckham, for me, every time he came to England camps he was an extremely professional football player.

Every player wants to play on the biggest stages in football. I have played for big teams. I know what it takes.

Lukaku sees football and lives for his game the way I think a top player should live for it.

Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.

As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor - that dream of being able to play in the Super Bowl, you're never going to let that one go.

Ask me about my football, and not too much else. I just want to be a player among the players.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player,” Nita said, “I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

Ronaldo is a great player. But those who claim that he is stronger than Messi do not understand football or are in bad faith.

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

One of the great things about being a professional football player is visiting countries and seeing cultures you might never see.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.

Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

Fans saying a player is overpaid doesn't bother a player. What bothers an injured player is watching your competitors grow.

A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.

He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.

I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

I feel very honoured that I've been chosen as the best player for 1992 by national coaches with so much football knowhow.

Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.

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.

As an NFL player, and as a veteran in this game, no one cares what you're doing during the offseason. They only care about what you do on the football field.

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don't want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.

A pro football player is lucky. He has a chance to meet a lot of people and make some potential business connections.

It is a sad day for football when a player about to enter his prime moves for financial reasons and nothing else.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.