Quotes About Football

Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played in Manchester and experienced great matches. I know he still feels that love.

People like Paul Scholes were in my way at United - what are you going to do with that? You just look at him as an idol. I have watched him since I was a little kid. I couldn't have had a much better teacher.

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home, which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool, he was one of the players I liked most.

Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

I always felt before Paul Brown, coaches just rolled the ball out onto the field.

There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.

I'm not a fan of Paul Pogba. Maybe he is a talent, but I don't see him as any more than that.

In my early years, I wanted to be like Paul Gascoigne.

Paul Pogba is a very good player.

I always looked up to Paul Scholes, Giggsy, Wazza and Carras. When I got the chance to train with them you saw how professional they were every day and how hard they work.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

Penalties are easy if you score, but in open play, we create chances as well.

Any one of Messi, Neymar, Xavi, or Suarez can take penalties; it doesn't matter.

The video ref should focus on the key things, situations ahead of goals, penalties and red cards.

Post-snap penalties will happen. It comes with the game, but the pre-snap penalties, and then the unsportsmanlike things, we can control those things.

I only ever had two options when taking a penalty. It was either going to the left-hand side or the right.

If there is a chance to ever take a penalty I am going to ask the manager and I would do it!

When I'm close to the penalty area, that's where I feel more comfortable.

The feeling is that video assistant referees and technology are here to help us, especially for justice in the penalty area.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.