Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Every football player, or every person who works, wants to earn money to help their families.

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

I don't need to speak with my colleagues in the national side to know what kind of player Messi is. He's one of the best players in the history of football and very difficult to stop.

I am a football player. I like to win. And I am used to winning - quite a lot.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

I don't have no issue with any guy. I'm a football player. I'm a competitor. When we're in the field, we're going to compete and be competitive. It's not personal between none of these guys. It's all in the game.

I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don't deserve to be in the league.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

It's just such an honour to be spoken about by Steven Gerrard in such a way, that I might also become such a great player for Liverpool. He is an icon, one of my personal football heroes.

Ibrahimovic is a very intelligent player and there are very few strikers like him in world football.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.

In football, we never know what will happen. That's why football is so beautiful, and a lot of people love football.

I hate when people lump me in with kickers that lasted a long time. I have respect for guys like Morten Andersen, but I was a football player, not just a kicker.

At the end of the day it's still football. It's nothing to over-process: You're going against another player who puts their pants and shoes on the way you do, and that's something I realized.

Whoever likes football always likes to see the best player on the pitch.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

The Premier League is very strong, physical football, and I am not a strong player.

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.

People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Ozil is a quality player, and he really enjoys playing football. I always tell him to enjoy it and not get too worried about scoring.

It wouldn't be football unless you had critics. There are always going to be doubters and people that will question you as a player but you've just got to get through it.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That's something you have to feel as a football player.

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

Football is about the team, and every player is ready to help the team.

Messi is in a different world. He is the best player in world football, without any doubt.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Braxton Miller is a special football player and has been special since he stepped on campus.

I'm not afraid of any competition. I'm not going to be intimidated by any player or team. That is fundamental in football if you want to do well.

It's just what I need to do as a football player, to come in and bring life whenever I'm starting, whenever I'm coming in.

It doesn't get much more Arkansas than being a former Arkansas Razorback football player.

It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

I played for Middlesbrough's youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren't signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

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.

So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it's an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.

For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

People assume cheering in the NFL is mostly about a girl trying to snag herself a big, beefy, stinkin' rich football player. That is not the case.

I'm very proud because, all my life, I worked very hard to be a football player.

Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I'm going to be here for a long time.

When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.

I want to be a Premier League player, a Liverpool player and an England player.

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.

I'll tell you what, I've never seen any football player more uncomfortable in a situation of having to make a one-on-one move on somebody than Patrick Mahomes in space.

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.

My dad was a steelworker but I had the opportunity to become a player. A very average player but a player all the same. But I worked my socks off to make something of myself.

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

I'm surrounding myself with people who want to do what I want to do, which is be a football player.

As a player I had the opportunity twice a week to play football in front of thousands of people and I could make them happy by just scoring a goal.