Quotes About Football

I enjoy teaching football.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

This is something you have to accept in football. Someone will say you are overpriced, but I did not think about it. Maybe I was overpriced, but I believe in my quality and want to get better. If you know what you can do for your team, it becomes no problem, and you don't even think about it.

I play to be happy in the first place and then to help my colleagues and my team the best way I can, with the best football.

AC Milan will always be a great team.

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Nigeria is a great footballing nation and deserves to assume her rightful place in Africa and world football and I am keen to be part of a team that achieves this goal.

As long as Didier Deschamps is coach, I have no chance of getting back into the France team.

My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere.

I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility.

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

At Tottenham Hotspur, we can share the pressure, but on the South Korea team, some of the players have more pressure than others.

The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Manchester City are a big team, and Chelsea are a big team.

Chelsea is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it.

At Real Madrid, there will always be people who score goals. They are a team and not a single player, no matter how much one appears more than another.

The best team I played in was the Brazilian one in 2002; we felt that we could always score. It was a team without any vanity - or individuals.

In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.

I don't want to go back to the national team and play the hypocrite when some of them asked for me to be kicked out.

When it is 1-0 and you have been dominant and you have restricted the home team to pretty much nothing, if you do not score the second goal then that is football. Any action can happen in the game.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.