Quotes About Football

Everybody knows Man City and Chelsea is always a fiercely competitive game.

Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.

FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.

Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

I genuinely enjoy watching the full-back run up the pitch and going across to fill in.

Everton have had great centre-forwards in the past - they are big boots to fill.

Everyone goes on about Manchester United all the time, but they're just another team in the final. I don't see it as anything special.

You might cry during a game if you lose a final. That's all part of football.

A lot of the guys who played in the 1995 final for Ajax had been there since the age of 12 or 13. Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids had been there from age seven or eight, so I had a lot of catching up to do.

For any dad who has two footballing sons, to have them in a semi-final and know that at least one will reach the final is the best present in the world.

It seems to be a big thing to people that a Scottish player is going to play in the Champions League final, but hopefully that will become a more regular thing.

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

In England, I think we get about 30,000 for maybe an FA Cup final, and there are lots of kids on the seats, which is nice - don't get me wrong - but it's a calm atmosphere.

Whenever you're playing in the Championship or League football, you know there are play-offs at the end of it. If you miss out on the top two, it's a great alternative to play in a play-off final.

A club like Liverpool should always expect to be in finals.

I won three FA Cup finals, two League Cup finals, and played in one of United's two Champions League-winning finals. But I lost in a lot of finals, too: the FA Cup in 1995, 2005 and 2007, the League Cup in 2003, and the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.

To win the Champions League for a second time or even to have been in three finals and won two of them is a bit special.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn't have believed it.

There were other propositions, even better financially, but I chose Olympiakos because of the Champions League.

I'm fine at Wolfsburg, and I'm happy to be able to play in the Champions League.

I told Cruyff I'd have given my little finger to have played for his team, but not just to play at Barcelona but for how they played, because I saw how the players enjoyed themselves.

I would love to retire a City player and I have my fingers crossed it is something that can still happen. When I did leave in 2005, I broke down crying on the way to sign for Chelsea, but back then, we needed the money my sale brought in.

I like making movies and would like to make it my career when I'm finished playing football.

Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.