Quotes About Football

Maldini was a key figure in world football. I have always had great admiration for him as a player and as a human being. I faced him in many derbies - he was tough but always very loyal.

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

Suarez and I are similar and I like facing strikers like him.

Put it this way, I'm a romantic, emotional guy that lives and breathes football and believes in fairytale stories; 'Rocky,' things like that.

The Bernabeu faithful doesn't want a similar style to Barca. They want a more direct style of football.

I love Man United, and I will always love Man United. It is not a fake love.

It's a little weird thinking I'm going to be an Atlanta Falcon - just saying that.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

I hate false nines.

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'

Chelsea and Shakhtar are two great teams.

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

Playing with France is the challenge of playing with one of the national teams with the greatest football histories.

I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

There are a lot of big players and a lot of big teams, but I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

I'm not sure if it's easier to play against teams who try to play football against you rather than sit back.

There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.