Quotes About Footballer

My dream was always to be a footballer and help my family.

Before leaving, I was seen as a good player, perhaps as a very good player, but as one of the many players that Bayern had. But if you play as a Real footballer, you get even more attention. Maybe that part from the fans I do not like so much.

It's tough. That's the side people don't see. You have to balance it, get it right, and be a dad as well as a footballer. That is part of the job. Around this time of year, it's so important.

There is something about a cup final that brings out a different quality in a footballer. Do they have the courage to win a one-off match?

As a footballer, I know I am a role model for a lot of African kids, and I want to make a direct impact on their lives.

My thoughts on Balotelli? He's the kind of player who infuriates me. I was not born a footballer like him. I achieved what I did because of all the hard work I put in. I had to make sacrifices.

My father was a footballer, and he has inspired me.

Being a manager is so different to being a footballer. It's a very difficult job, but, of course, it's very exciting as well.

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.

Playing with the boys made me a better footballer. It made me more competitive and made me want to win even more. You were playing against the boys and wanted to prove how good you were.

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.

Every footballer enjoys having the ball at their feet. There are times in training you find yourself without the ball. I enjoy that side of it as well. If we can spend more time working with the ball then everyone will enjoy it.

I'm a professional footballer, and I get paid for doing my job.

When I left Liverpool, I knew had to leave. It was a big step but it was something I had to do. A lot of people asked if it was hard, it wasn't hard. It was something I needed to do to improve and get better as a footballer.

But I'm constantly surprised by the amount of interest in how I look. It's flattering, but a little weird - at the end of the day, I'm a footballer.

Andrea Pirlo is football, he is a fantastic and sensational footballer.

It is not easy to change things in a footballer that other coaches told him were very good.

It was always a dream as a footballer to compete in the best leagues in the world and those leagues are here in Europe.

I always break it down I am three different people. I'm Troy Deeney the footballer, I'm daddy who the kids get to see and I'm Troy which a few of my mates get to see.

When you're playing once and then not playing for six games, I don't care what any footballer says, you don't feel involved. You don't feel part of the team.

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.

It was part of my dream when I was a kid to become a footballer, is to have that pressure, to be the man who is going to be there when everything is on the line.

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.