Quotes About Football

Some of the centre-backs are 90 kg. I'm only 70-something kilos - so I need to be strong.

I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

I'm from Chicago, and I loved the Bears.

I could play for another club in Europe but my heart is beating too much for Bayern. But I could imagine going to the U.S., Qatar or Dubai for a new experience.

When I was a kid, beating England was incredible; it always had greater repercussion than beating anyone else.

I like beating old standardbearers of the N.F.L.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.

I was at Everton from the age seven. Being there 14 years meant any move was going to be big.

I'm at Leicester and with Brendan Rodgers coming in we're all loving him being there and that's where my head's at.

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

I wasn't a No. 9, as everyone believes today. Every time I played as a No. 9, I failed.

It's difficult to find someone better than Milik. However, when a player believes his time at a club is over and he wants a change of scenery, you have to listen to him.

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Football is aesthetically ugly. Eleven players against eleven others running after a ball are not especially beautiful.

Football is one of England's biggest crimes.

Chess is one of the means we have to save culture, such as Latin, the study of the humanities, the reading of classics, the laws of versification and ethics. Chess is now replaced by football, boxing or tennis, which are games of fools, not of intellectuals.

El ajedrez es uno de los medios que tenemos para salvar la cultura, como el latín, el estudio de las humanidades, la lectura de los clásicos, las leyes de la versificación, la ética. El ajedrez es hoy reemplazado por el fútbol, el boxeo o el tenis, que son juegos de insensatos, no de intelectuales.

I've definitely got longer passing in my locker and you can bring that out more when you're playing in that No 8 position.

Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

Football, for me, is an infinite passion that will always be around.