Quotes About Football

We didn't know how it was going to go but it was always going to be hard for me to go straight from Melbourne into Manchester City's first team. It was always the plan for me to go on loan.

A national team is a reflection of its country's football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they've achieved.

I like to believe Chelsea is where I will go through and do well. I have been there since I was six years old. My dream is to break into the first team.

With all due respect, but Juventus are not Real Madrid or the AC Milan of Ronaldinho's days. They can win games 6-2 or 5-2. Juventus are not like that. We have to win 1-0 or 2-0. It's in the club's DNA. That does not mean we will not try to win 3-0, but we are a team that cannot concede a goal when we are ahead.

When you are an ex-footballer you want to stay with the one team and one club, and Arsenal is my club.

All Spanish players want to play for the national team.

I came from my hometown team, Real Sociedad, to the best team in England, to the best team in Spain, to the best team in Germany.

When I talk to my colleagues from the national team, they always talk to me about Real Madrid.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.

Of course, I want to play every game but you have to accept rotations and understand that other players are in good form. Football's a team game.

This game we play is the ultimate total team game. Quarterback by himself isn't winning it. You got 11-12 coaches, you've got a lot of people that have a hand in it.

At the start of my career, I had a problem focusing for 90 minutes, but that's the advantage of football: it's a team game.

I want everybody to enjoy success, because that's what football's about. It's a team game.

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.

I was runner-up for the Ballon d'Or once and came third on another occasion. Could I have won it? Maybe. But I don't care. Football is a team sport.

I don't care if I get no carries and just play special teams. I'm there to try to win football games and help that team win.

Strengths, I believe deep down that I am a football player, just have to do whatever it takes to win games, whatever it takes to fulfill my role on the offense and help my team win games.

Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.

My best teammate was Roberto Carlos.

Danieal Manning is a friend of mine, he was a teammate for five or six years, and that's the way it is.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

For me, the best defender I played against was Carles Puyol. He was my teammate, too, but my rival many times. Also, Roberto Ayala, the Argentinian centerback.