Quotes About Football

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

For me, the Parc des Princes is special, somewhere I'd go to spend my pocket money.

I believe that, in principle, it is easier to get into the national team if you perform well at Bayern, compared to what the benefits of playing for other clubs are.

Everyone knows me by now. I love football. I am quite principled in that perspective. It is always difficult to find the perfect match, but I do feel this is the perfect match for me.

I don't go looking for the post-match team pictures posted by players on Instagram, but usually, someone ends up showing them to me, or I notice them when they get printed in the newspapers.

Prior to the draft I met with the Vikings about four or five times.

Faith, family, and football is how I prioritize my life. And they all go together, but they go in that order.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Whichever work you do, people go through life having several priorities. I know my football is what got me here. The work I do for SOS or my charity work in general has always been a priority for me, and then my family is a priority as well, so you set yourself different things, and they just balance each other out.

It's nice when big teams are interested in you but my priority was always to stay at PSG.

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.

In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn't care less about your private life. It's when you lose a football match that they criticise you - a lot.

A lot of things, experiences I had, helped me to grow up and mature, both in terms of my football career and my private life too.

My private life has absolutely nothing to do with my football.

If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.

I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don't think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.

I am very proud to be playing for Milan. It's always a privilege for me.

It's a privilege to be a football manager, even when you've been beaten or you're bottom of the table.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

It's a privilege for us, Portugal, to have a player like Cristiano Ronaldo.

I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.

This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.

It's been a privilege for me, really, to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, an iconic club, an institution.

It is a great privilege for me to play at Man United, where great players like Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole have played.