Quotes About Football

In football, especially at international level, opportunities come along and you have to grab them.

I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.

I believe it was seventh or eighth grade: I went to a Danny Ford football camp. A buddy of mine was a big Clemson fan, and coach Ford put on a camp, and we did actually enjoy ourselves.

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

I went to Everton, and it's levels - the higher up you get, you are under more and more scrutiny as a football player. You have to learn to deal with it at that scale and gradually progress to be able to deal with it at an even higher scale.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Since I was 15 or 16 years old, my grandfather was my high school football coach and my life's been ball. Dinners we're talking about ball and college we're talking about ball.

As much as I absolutely love football I know I'm gonna put everything I have into it - that I've got a family at home and my faith in Christ is more important to make sure that's healthy! That's something that like my dad and grandpa showed me.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

I have been playing for England since I was 18, and while I wouldn't say I took it all for granted, it just seemed to be a part of my season - to play for Arsenal and to play for England.

When I was young at Arsenal, you take it for granted, playing all the time.

Rugby is just a ball. I would be much more versed to coach American football, but you need 22 players and all of the equipment. With rugby, all you need is some green grass, a ball, and a bunch of kids who want to run into each other really hard, which they enjoy.

Racism is felt the most definitely in grassroots football.

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

I know a lot about grassroots football.

'Grateful' is the word that comes to my mind when thinking of the Denver Broncos.

I don't have the words to express my gratitude to Zidane.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

I don't know; the gravity of playing football - you can't lose the comparison of other stuff. If you do, and football is the only thing, it becomes too serious.

It will be nice to play against Australia. It's a great country, and football is getting bigger and bigger.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

There is a great deal of fair play in English football.

I think my gymnastic background helped a great deal with my agility when I took up football seriously.