Quotes About Football

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.

As a child, I used to play football. Even during my school days, I didn't play cricket. I had also attended a few football trials. But my love for my mother and my mother's love for cricket is how I made the 22 yards my ultimate goal"

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches.

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.