Quotes About Football

I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.

I've practically grown up with FC Bayern Munich since the age of 11. In my case, a talent scout noticed me when I was playing for a local youth team at Gern in Munich.

I think there's a discipline, a toughness, a respect for the game that I learned in New England that I think is just basic, the way football's supposed to be taught and practiced and preached.

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

It was football I enjoyed most. When I moved to L.A. to become a stand-up comedian, I thought it might be a good comedy hook to also be the punter for USFL club The L.A. Express, so I started practicing for the tryouts. Luckily, my stand-up took off, and I didn't need to do it.

I love football, and I love practicing.

All the training for the combine was basically practicing for the different drills that we would see at the combine. Rather than football specific drills that we would do at BC.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

In football you can take the praise when it comes, but you've got to be ready to take the criticism as well.

You will get criticised, you will get praised - that's the way football goes. I've learned over a few years now that it can change within an instant.

Youre not exactly going to do a prank on the hardest player at your football club, when you know hes going to give you a wallop.

I believe, and, when I pray, I ask to become one of the best attackers on the planet.

I pray every night to win the Champions League with City.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get in order to compete. A big part of that was to be as precise as I could and make as few mistakes as possible because I figured that was the only way I could survive.

I try to be precise with my passes but take some risks as well.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Things always change in football, and you can never predict anything.

You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

I prefer Liverpool. The way we play is good for all of our players.

I much prefer playing in the centre of the park; that's where I feel comfortable.