Quotes About Football

As a kid, I was always pretending to score the goal in the FA Cup final, and I managed to live my dream.

Football is, honestly, so objectively bad that I have always been convinced that the only reason it is so 'popular' is some kind of mass conspiracy. Everyone who 'likes' it is just pretending to like it because they see other people 'liking' it, and now we are all forced to endure it.

I think the prettiest play in football is the pass.

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.

I'm OK with having a really good football player with a chip on his shoulder because he's going to come to prove to not only the people that didn't draft him, but himself, that I'm a pretty good football player.

I want to be a coach one day. This is important to me. I think I have a pretty good foundation of football schemes and X's and O's.

It's a scary moment when you're on a football pitch and realize that your life is in danger - it was a one in a million kind of thing.

Chase Daniel is not a bad player.

Danny Welbeck was great for us at Manchester United.

If Ryan Kalil isn't the game's best center, he's pretty darn close to it.

David Moyes works you really hard, but he's also a fair manager as well.

I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton.

Football is a game. And sometimes I think about it way too much over situations that could be, you know, deadly.

I am happy to make my debut in the Champions League.

It is every boy's dream to make his debut for Liverpool.

My debut was against England back in 2012.

For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.

In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.

I get excited for big games in December.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

The thing that is really important is that the players have the drive to do something more with their football. If you have that, you can make a decent player into a very good player.

As players, you can't decide who manages the club.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.

It comes down to your decision-making and obviously you can get better and better as a decision-maker as you play, and get reps and go through experiences and learn but football's the same as life, you got to be a great decision maker to have success.