Quotes About Football

The only way you're gonna eliminate helmet-to-helmet contact is to take the helmets off. Go back to leather helmets. I mean, I think a defensive player would be much less inclined to lead with his head if he had no protection.

There were no Manchester United fans protesting when I left their club in 2005. I wasn't one of their most important players, so I moved on, worked really hard, got my breaks, and my career took off.

I am proud to have started in the Champions League.

People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.

When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

I am very happy that I proved Asian players can deal with the high levels of European football.

I was told 'you can't play for England, you're at Bolton.' I proved them wrong.

It was Milan who proved they wanted me and they did everything to get me.

Baltimore has proven themselves on the football field. We can't take that away.

I've always said it, and the whole football world knows that Cavani is a centre-forward and that he has proven his worth in that position. Having said that, Cavani has shown other characteristics that can help the team, like winning the ball back, helping out defensively.

Canada's known as a hockey country and now we've proven that we can also play football as well.

Even in training Paul Scholes proves he is one of the best midfielders about, and Michael Carrick as well.

Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

I played for England at cricket and football. Playing at Wembley in front of 60,000 people seemed better than playing at Cirencester in front of my family and friends.

I was a big Steelers fan.

My dad was the biggest Alabama fan ever, and I was brainwashed.

The only club I couldn't play for is Newell's Old Boys because I am a fan of Rosario Central.

When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.

I was player-manager at Sheffield United. I played my last ever game for them. It was terrible. We lost 4-1, I think to Sunderland. Fancy that, a Geordie, being forced to retire because of a defeat to Sunderland.

The Everton fans seem to know football, seem to understand it, it seems to be in their blood and they really back the team.

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.

I grew up in Newell's Old Boys and will never manage Rosario Central. That is my decision because I prefer to work on my farm in Argentina than in some places.