Top 273 Footballers Quotes & Sayings

Nigerian footballers who have played in Russia improved their ability here.

The money footballers earn today is incredulous

We footballers don't address one another as 'My dear.'

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

Fans have to try to control their emotions, as we do as footballers.

Sometimes you look at footballers and think they're selfish or they don't bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate footballers and their capacity to have a strong opinion and sympathy for others.

Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.

It is true that footballers are mistrustful.

We're professional footballers and we just have to be prepared for anything that could happen.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

We want to be treated as professionals and like the male footballers.

CR7 is a model to all footballers.

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

As footballers we are in a really privileged position so it's good to give back to the community.

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

I grew up with a lot of footballers.

Argentina produces great footballers, but Uruguay does the same.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout.

I don't think where they live is important to footballers.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time.

Footballers are very superstitious.

Kids want to be professional footballers and I think they need to know what it takes to get there - you know, the dedication. People see footballers playing on a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV cameras, but from a Monday to Friday people don't really see what goes on.

We are footballers, not artists.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

My dad produces good footballers.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.

We are footballers, we can make mistakes and we can lose games.

Footballers are always learning new things.

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

Us, as footballers, are in a very privileged position.

We often compare footballers with players of the past.

I think the stereotype about footballers being badly dressed is unfair.

I don't know many footballers except Maradona and Messi.

For me, happy footballers play the best football.

When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

I do enjoy seeing footballers every day, being on the training ground.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

The make-up on 'Footballers' Wives' is unbelievable - there's loads of fake tan.

The simple fact is there are no laws you can pass to stop people racially abusing black footballers. So the solution is to come up with something that doesn't make people want to abuse black footballers in the first place.

Most footballers are quite tense, aren't they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They've got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.

It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time.

'Primeval' is very similar to 'Footballers' Wives' - it's pure fantasy.

It's a dream that we, as women footballers, get to play in the same stadium as the men.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

There is such a strange microculture to footballers' fashion and style and the design that goes around it.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

We wanted to be footballers, not part of some gang.

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.

Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

I don't believe footballers have to live like monks.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.