Quotes About Football

As much as I liked Wolves as a boy and it was a childhood dream to play and perhaps manage for the club, I've come to Bolton and this is where I want to stay.

I think Wolves are getting the best out of me, and I'm giving Wolves my best football, but they are giving the best to me too.

At Wolves I just had all the experiences - disappointment and then obviously getting promoted and stuff like that, but then taking it to the next level and getting into Europe as well.

I can't just rot away... If I stay at Wolves obviously I have to play.

I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.

Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, 'He can't play football.' I used that to my advantage.

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.

The midfield is the heartbeat of a football team, it's the centre of the action, so you can't just do one thing.

In football, sometimes things happen that are outside of your control, leading the club to make decisions.

I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.

I left Barcelona because I was brave. Neymar arrived and I played less. These things happen in football.

Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

In football, I have learned to forget the past, think about the present, and the future will come as it may - thinking about it would be a mistake.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Arsenal are a historic club. Arsene Wenger has been here for such a long time, and there is a real level of stability at the club. He knows what he wants to achieve in the coming years. I liked the way he spoke about football and what he thinks of me.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

I had a fantastic time at United. I have been back to watch games. It was over 14 years of my life. It is a third of my life I spent at Old Trafford. That's a lot of time, and it feels like home.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

During the season, the teams play every third day. That's a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.