Quotes About Football

Once I got into the league, I liked to watch LaDainian Tomlinson. He was nice, man. Quick, strong, great eyes, able to catch the ball.

My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were, and he was so quick.

When I got fired from coaching, I started coaching high school because my son played. I realized real quick that high school football is in trouble. There's no budget. A lot of kids have got to pay to play, and every year, coaches are getting out of the profession. Kids aren't playing like they used to. It bothers me.

The Premier League is a competition with very quick football.

Cristiano - he has it all. He has a right foot, left foot, is good in the air, so quick.

Messi is so quick; he's so good. For me, he's the best player in the world.

Football is business. It's all about being quick, quick, quick - nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.

There are teams in England who play the football I like, keeping the ball on the ground, playing a quick game with one-twos, pressing their opponents high up the pitch. If one of these clubs were interested in me, I'd adapt to them well, and they could adapt to my way of playing, which isn't so common.

When it comes to the game they both focus on different things. Pep is maybe more about positions, dominating the ball while Jurgen is maybe more like winning the ball and trying to score goals as quick as possible with high intensity.

It took me some time to get used to the game in Scotland because it was very different. The game is quicker and more physical. You don't get much time on the ball, that's for sure. It is probably better than I thought as well.

I think futsal helped me a lot when I was 11 or 12 years old. It helped me to think quicker and look for the passing lines. I think I managed to move those lessons to 11-a-side football.

That's football. Observe, orient, decide, act, over and over and over again. The quicker you do these things, the better you're going to be.

The difference between Germany and Italy? I think in Serie A there is more quality and the game is quicker, but in Germany it's similar.

I think quickness is a piece of football that isn't talked about enough.

The scaffolders and builders from demolition companies nearby used to play each other for 20 quid a man - the tackles were mad. I played for the local estate against them one day and we won, there was a full-scale riot. 'He's a ringer' they were saying. Half of them were drunk so I could get the ball and just run and around them - I was only 12!

There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

I don't know if I'm ever going to quit playing football. I'm just kidding.

The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.

It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.

I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.

When I finally quit for the second time in the summer of 2013, I had accepted that this really was the end, and, having got over that, the move into retirement was a lot easier.

I started playing when I was 10 for Milan, and I quit when I was 41, so it's a long, long career.

There are a lot of reasons why people quit international football. Some struggle off the field. Some struggle with injuries.

When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.