Quotes About Football

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played with the first team at 18.

As a Barcelona man, I always want Real Madrid to lose.

You can't rule out anybody - a club like Real Madrid will fight until the last game of the season to win the league.

Loyalty is a big part of football, and it shows if you are a real man or not.

When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.

I used to play as a No. 10, in Bilbao, in most of the games, but when I came to United, when you come to one of the biggest clubs in the world, you realise that if you want to be a No. 10, you have to score 10, 12 goals per season.

Sometimes people don't realise just how hard it is to play with 10 men in the Premier League.

I realise that sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. But it is very important for me I feel personally, even selfishly, the need to be playing football matches.

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.

I first realised I was good at football when I started getting scouted by United, Liverpool, Everton; clubs like that had a lot of interest at an early age, and you kind of know then you're on the right path. I was about six years old and had to sign a contract at nine.

The women's game has grown, but when I was playing at Arsenal, I don't think people realised how good we actually were. I think there's just a perception that we just play football, but we're not very good, and it was a challenge for us to try and prove those type of people wrong.

I didn't know how to socialise with other people. I went to Harefield and it was strange at first but then I realised I was only here for one thing and that was the football. That was one of the many things that kept me grounded and kept me going.

The jobs of manager and director of football are too big for one individual - this I realised very quickly.

I love Liverpool FC. My dad used to take me to games because he was a shareholder at Everton. When I came down to London, I realised that Liverpool FC was my team.

I started realising I'm bigger and stronger than a lot of the full-backs. I was expecting everyone in the Prem to be so strong.

The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.

I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.

If we are realistic and forget team loyalties, you cannot compare Messi with any other player.

I just want to let people know that JuJu is all about football. He's focused on football. But at the same time, I've gotta live my life, too.