Quotes About Dedication

I only ever wanted to be a footballer.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

As a footballer, you always want to get better personally. And if you get better personally, you make the team better.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

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

I'm enjoying playing football, and as a footballer, that's what you want to do, and that is exactly what I've been doing.

It's impossible to imagine doing anything else because I always had in my head that I would be a footballer.

I was a footballer for a long, long time.

As a footballer, you still have to dream.

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.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

It's never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it's about responding and coming back.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

We all like a party but when that 'becomes the main feature of your lifestyle as a footballer, I haven't got time for that.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

Every footballer wants to be in a starting position on the pitch.

It is special to play alongside the best footballer in the world.

As a footballer, I'm never satisfied with where I'm at.

For a footballer, not playing is like a fish not being in the water.

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.

As a footballer you're so in a routine, and you do the same things every day.

When we have a ball at our feet, we footballers are delighted, but what happens behind the scenes is not always all that pretty.

We are footballers, not artists.