Quotes About Football

To win four games in a row at any point in the season for any team in the Premier League is a great achievement.

I don't think you can manage 400 games in the Premier League, 550 in the Championship, play 980 times and not be a little bit organised.

I was just happy to be in and around the team, being in the 16, being in and around a Premier League team. I got nine games, I came on a couple of times in the Prem, a couple of times in the cup games.

There's lots of money in the Premier League and people think it's going to filter down. It does to a certain extent, but it's not all about that.

It's hard to pick out a single team, because there are so many big games here in the Premier League, obviously there are the top teams like Liverpool, City, Chelsea, I think those big games, the 'big six' are always good. We always look forward to them, we all want to be on the pitch and to win them.

In Portugal, you couldn't always find Premier League kits, and if you could, they were really expensive.

Didier Drogba is one of the best strikers in the world and he has showed that for many years now in the Premier League.

I would like to return to the Premier League but I think if you put that question to more or less every manager in the world, then they would like to do it as well.

If you're a manager in the Premier League the pressure is enormous because if you don't win matches, you'll not be there very long.

As it is, I played 99 per cent of my football in the Premier League and I'd proud of that fact. That's where my history is.

I like Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud, they are good players, but are they going to win you the Premier League? No, and I say that because they are not going to be in the top five or six goal scorers in the league.

Yes, it was my dream to play in the Premier League and fortunately for me my dream is also to play for Manchester United.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

It's very difficult, but if I'm talking from my personal view and what I do as a job, which is playing football, how the Premier League and football handles racism should be with great severity because there's no place for it in the world.

They say the Premier League is best league in the world. Or Roy Keane says we are brainwashed into believing it. He might be right. But I can definitely say it's the most entertaining league.

Football wasn't invented until the Premier League, we all know that.

It sounds beautiful to be called West Ham's top Premier League scorer.

I think every single player dreams of playing in the Premier League one day.

You could say I've not been the same player for Ireland as I have in the Premier League.

Obviously, no-one's going to watch Belgian football. Nobody is going to watch Portuguese football. But I've played with some players who right now are killing it in the Premier League.

And I know the risks of changing captaincy midway through a season. At Derby, it was a great compliment when Paul Jewell handed me the armband, and I was made captain of my fourth Premier League club, but it was awkward for Matt Oakley, who had it taken away from him.

The Premier League is the number one best league in the world. It's a very competitive football.

Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.