Quotes About Football

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.

Kieran Tierney's work rate is just amazing. He gives 100 percent in every game, he makes lots of runs and makes lots of assists too. He defends, he goes forward, he is every inch the modern left back.

I would rate my TV football skills as an amazing achievement by the editors.

I remember Ron Atkinson used to play in the sessions at Manchester United when he was the manager. Rated himself as a player.

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

The ratings are obviously important, but quite honestly we don't spend that much time with them because we believe that if we can play good football, if we play at a high level, everything will fall in place, the ratings, the attendance, all of the things that are important on the business side.

Martin Skrtel is good at rattling the opposing centre-forward.

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.

I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

Hey, you can't play football forever unless you're Brett Favre or Ray Lewis.

The Barcelona players have reached an amazing mutual understanding that they can play with their eyes closed.

When you're young, you don't think about what you want to be. I was just playing football because I had fun and enjoyed it. When I reached 16, that's when I was dreaming about becoming a footballer.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Joy is important in life, not just football. Joy is being serious and professional, too. Joy can be reaching your potential by training hard and being disciplined. Joy can be following the rules you need to follow.

Football is football but life is life. I am so happy at being a father and reaching the Champions League final.

It's always fun being in the community, reaching out to not only the Kansas City faithful, but also people that really don't know that much about football and seeing the influence it could possibly have on them.

That's why football is so nice - it gives us the opportunity to react quickly and learn a lot from a situation, what were our mistakes, and where things went wrong.

I rate Dave Luiz as a top defender. He's very clever. But I don't know if he's as quick as me. And if he kicks me, he kicks me. It's fine. I can't react to anything.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.

The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.