Quotes About Football

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

I try to be physical when I get pads on.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

I can train players and talk about football. But losing as a manager was so painful, I couldn't live with it.

Growing up in South Jersey, I have always been an Eagles fan. I don't paint my face or anything like that, but I deeply care about the team.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for four years and he gave me a lot of time off to train and to play non-league football and that was where I was finally spotted.

I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

I remember going home one day and telling my brother that I was going to give up football because I was 17 and was too old. My brother said he wouldn't let me. He got me my first pair of real boots and those were the boots I managed to become professional in.

I do wonder how managers like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly would cope. How would Cloughie deal with players taking five pairs of different colour boots to a game?

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Luckily, Palace have had love for me from the beginning. It is the team I could fall back on.

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

I think Crystal Palace is always a tough place to go.

At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

I'm sad to leave Palace because they're a great club and gave me my chance in football, and I want to say thanks to everyone there.

When I left Bristol City for Palace, I just wanted to be playing football. I didn't care about the money I was getting or anything. I just wanted to play because I've always been like that, that's just my character.

Before I came to Italy to play for Milan in 2007, I saw in the papers that my name was mentioned in connection with some English clubs.

At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.

I don't watch football debate shows on TV, hardly listen to the radio or read the papers.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Football should not be your source of identity. This one is important to me because I am much more than the player. My faith, my wife, my family, and the work I do off the field is paramount to feeling whole.

I'm very happy with how things are going for me at Paris Saint-Germain.

Everyone benefits from a strong Paris Saint-Germain - the club itself, the French league and also the Champions League.