Quotes About Integrity

I don't want to be a star. I just want to play football.

I don't play football just for money or things like that.

I've seen other people grow up and not have respect for human beings. But even though I play football, I'm still able to talk to everyone on the estate. Whenever I go, I can literally talk to anyone that I meet and everyone I have known from my past.

I'd rather not play football at all than have to change my style.

I play football, but at the end of the day, it doesn't define me.

I don't play golf for fame.

You've got guys who will kiss up, and I'm not gonna kiss up. I don't need to kiss anyone's butt. I'm here to play golf.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just... the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.

India has never played politics with national security.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

I'm not a freak show. I'm a hockey player.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

I'm not a selfish player - never been a selfish player in my life. Always been about the team.

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

I'm an honest player.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

Great players play all matches.

As players we have to be careful what we put out there and make sure everything we do is appropriate. And it is not always easy.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.