Top 580 Footballer Quotes & Sayings - Page 6
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
I feel I have been very lucky. When you are growing up, you have dreams of being a footballer, perhaps even playing for the club you support, and I am living that dream.
Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.
When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.
I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.
I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and when I was becoming a professional footballer, I felt like a German.
I struggle to see myself as Tyrone Mings the Ipswich footballer. I'm just Tyrone from Chippenham.
It's the perfect club for any footballer to develop and to grow, because as everybody knows, La Masia can give you stability; they take care of you when you leave home.
But the concept that it's important to understand the individual and the person, as well as the footballer, is a helpful concept, regardless of the competition.
I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.
I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.
When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.
When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.
Mark Hughes really believes in me, he makes me feel as though I'm a great footballer.
I have been following the Premier League very closely because once you have been a footballer you have an affinity with the game.
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.
When you are a talented footballer you rely on your abilities to win games. You use your skills without thinking. But in management that doesn't work.
I know, everywhere I go, I have the door open because I am a great footballer and a great person.
I had an opportunity to play for Paris St-Germain when I was younger and it's important for me to represent a club with that amount of history because of the type of footballer I am.
When I was younger, I had a fear of being judged as a footballer, and my worst fear was feeling like I didn't belong at the level of football I was playing.
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.
When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!
I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.
But when you are an injured footballer, especially when you are out for as long as I was, you find out all about the dark side of the game.
Most of the youngsters I grew up playing with do not have a career in the game now. Sometimes people think it is easy to be a footballer, but it is hard work that never stops.
The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.
Removing myself as a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league. Fantastic football is played in it.
If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.
Being confident is a really important part of being a footballer. I know my own ability and what I can achieve.
Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.
If you are a banker... you can do that for all your life, but if you are a footballer once you hit your mid 30s, you have to find something else to do.
I was at Boulogne, in the second team - the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn't professional, so I kept studying because I wasn't sure if I would be able to make a living as a footballer.
I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.
My time in England is where I have felt truly like a footballer, and I have put my name among the best players. I'm very proud to have played almost 400 games with Liverpool.
When I was at Inter, Ronaldo was the player who trained less than anyone else, because he was the best footballer in the world and it is indeed true that we went back home at 5-6 AM.
My mum and dad always knew that my dream was to be a footballer, but they also warned me that it doesn't always work out.
But I was just a normal person really. You see, I didn't get it in my head that I was just a professional footballer for Arsenal Football Club.
I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a footballer was not necessarily because it was about being the best - it was about winning.
I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.
When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.
As a footballer you're committed to play for the badge, train alongside fantastic players daily and compete against some of the game's best every weekend. What more can you ask for.
Luck - it's key for every footballer's career. I have been incredibly lucky during my career and in my life.
My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.
I understand football's changing and I'm evolving with it but stats are stats. You can run 15km if you like but I'm a footballer.
You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
My dream was to become a footballer, hope to become the best someday. And I worked for it. And I'll tell you that the work is the magic of success.
George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.
As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible.
Every footballer knows the Premier League is a great league. It's very competitive, and it's among the best leagues in the world.
People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.
It's is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it - I would love to.
There's a big difference between being a footballer and being a coach.
To the fans, it does not matter a damn how you are. You are seen as the footballer, the idol, so no one thinks to stop and ask you, 'Hey, how are you?'
It was always a dream as a footballer to compete in the best leagues in the world and those leagues are here in Europe.
The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the top.
Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that's going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.
When you are an ex-footballer you want to stay with the one team and one club, and Arsenal is my club.
Obviously, I did enjoy my football - it was just that I was missing out with friends. But they are the sacrifices that sometimes you have to make as a footballer, to make it.
