Top 100 Rooney Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
There's been a lot come through at Everton: Wayne Rooney, obviously, and lately, Victor Anichebe has made it, James Vaughan, and the likes of myself.
My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.
Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney are both outstanding players.
Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style.
I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.
Rooney is the man.
I remember the European Championships in 2004. Wayne Rooney was a special player in that tournament, and I definitely cried when we got knocked out then.
It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney
As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.
Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.
When I watch sport I like to see the likes of Wayne Rooney when they show a bit of passion. It shows they really care when they're playing for their club and their country.
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Growing up, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were the players I looked up to - and Carlos Tevez when he was at the club.
I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.
Playing with Wayne Rooney was a dream come true. He's a legend and a role model to me.
In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.
That's what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass - and there's no reason to call it a band if you're not gonna have the guys in the band playing on the records.
I hope maybe one day I can be like Wayne Rooney. Maybe then some young players will be proud to play against me. That would be amazing.
Rooney's a legend. He's one of my favourite attackers of all time. He's a guy I really do look up to.
I certainly believe in a type of Rooney Rule - in legislation that doesn't give black and ethnic individuals a job but, at least, puts them in the frame.
With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
Rooney is a good player, everybody knows his quality.
I back all of my players, not only Wayne Rooney.
Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.
Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever.
Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.
Everyone went crazy over Wayne Rooney, but I get more excited by Cristiano Ronaldo.
It will not be the same Manchester United without Wayne Rooney. He has to stay there until he dies.
Abbey Clancy is incredible. I saw a picture of her in a white suit recently, and she looked amazing. Victoria Beckham always looks classy, and I like Coleen Rooney's style too.
I think, first and foremost, Wayne Rooney is a class player. Wherever he is on the pitch, he can make an impact.
The treatment of Wayne Rooney told me something about the way England fans view the national team.
As a kid, I looked up to Gazza, and to Wayne Rooney because he came through at Everton. Zidane has been one of my favourite players and I was always watching videos of him.
Wayne Rooney has always made a great impression on me, even though I have only ever seen him on television.
I'd gone very quickly from playing in a park with my mates to sitting next to Wayne Rooney at dinner. It was a bit weird.
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
For the Emmys, my friend Rooney Mara designed a dress for me with her brand, Hiraeth. It's so neat to see a sketch turn into a full-on look.
I was growing up watching Rooney as an England legend and as one of the top players in England in my lifetime.
I am a massive fan of Wayne Rooney, and it is nice to see him play in any position because he gives a 100 per cent. Not many players can do that and say they do that.
If Rooney had been Italian, he would have been loved like Francesco Totti was at Roma.
I first remember Wayne Rooney from a game at Old Trafford in 2002 when he came on as a late substitute for Everton and, in a brilliant 15-minute performance, skipped past me on a couple of occasions.
Just thinking about the Pittsburgh franchise and Dan Rooney when he hired me, my first goal was just not to get fired before my 20th high school reunion.
Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are two of the best strikers in the league and the reason I came to the Premier League was to play against people like them.
Rooney's good but not the best in Manchester.
Rooney has to remember he is an icon and an example to youth.
Normally the biggest stars, as Wayne Rooney is, are selfish but he is not.
But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.
Wayne Rooney would have been great to play with. He is one of the best strikers in the world and this is also a guy who has scored against me every time I've played him.
You look at the way some of the big English players in the past, like Rooney and David Beckham, have been criticised and you have to ask: 'What do you want these players to be?'
What do you think of Manchester Uniteds three Rs - Rooney, Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy?
We've heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don't hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.
The likes of Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov, Michael Owen, and Ryan Giggs - I can see it live every day. I don't have to sit in front of a TV to study it.
In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.
Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.
Rooney is one of the best forwards in the world, if not the best.
Look, the reality is that people will pay more for a match when Wayne Rooney is playing than when I am playing. I will never expect to be paid the same as Wayne Rooney, because I am not Wayne Rooney. And there's no getting around that.
I looked up to Rooney and he had played for Everton when he was 16 and I wanted to do the same.
People can say I'm fat but I know my own body. I always look big because I'm bigger built - I've got that Wayne Rooney type of body.
There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.
I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.
