Quotes About Football

David Beckham, for me, every time he came to England camps he was an extremely professional football player.

I would try to be a striker even though I wasn't and once I started growing up and seeing professional football was a step closer I would look at Sergio Ramos. I always looked up to Ramos as an example and watched him a lot.

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

I was a young boy from Western Australia with a dream to play professional football.

I played professional football for 21 years, captained four clubs in the Premier League and won 39 caps for my country.

I've played as a winger all of my professional life and I'm looking forward to doing that now in front of the Everton fans.

In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.

As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that's all you can do in football.

I always think we have to be cautious with our attitude to refereeing the professionals and the people in the football family.

We want to be treated as professionals and like the male footballers.

Arsene Wenger is different. He's a purist. He's a professor of football. A professor.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.

I think that everyone expects Xavi to be a coach, and he has the profile to be at Barcelona or wherever he is.

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

It was about a football program that brought in massive amounts of money. They're going to try to cover something up, because it's about money at the end of the day. That's clear. There's no ambiguity to that. Paterno is much more complicated and contradictory, and that's why he's interesting to me.

When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programme with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

If you are an Oklahoma football fan, you have one of the best football programs in the nation.

I kept going because I just love football. But you get to the point where you're not getting the rewards or seeing any progression and that knocks your enthusiasm. That's why I decided to come to Oxford.

I never doubted my football, it's just a lot of things happened that prohibited me from playing.