Quotes About Football

It doesn't matter if they buy me for, I don't know, £38 million or £40m - I am not guaranteed to play the games.

Any move is a risk. Nothing is guaranteed in football.

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.

I think as you get older, you realize football as a whole isn't guaranteed.

I'm a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he's the best bald guard in football.

I'm not a QB guru.

I'm a 6'4' guy who can run every route. I can get in and out of breaks like a 5'10' guy.

My first dream as a young boy was to be a gymnast and my first memory of football is of watching Ajax win the European Cup in 1971. It was a time when a great philosophy was being developed at Ajax, making rounded players who were there as a complete team rather than as 11 individuals.

I'm obsessed with gymnastics. It's like my football. And I like to watch women's gymnastics a little bit more than men's because I live for balance beam.

If you know my kind of football, you will know I'm about training sessions, working on habits. If you have the chance to do that, okay. If you don't though, it's not so easy to change something about the team.

It was a disaster. I need to play with freedom, and Hodgson didn't let me cross the halfway line.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

I play this game to win Super Bowls and be a Hall of Famer.

Why is Barry Switzer not in the Hall of Fame? I have no idea. He's done everything humanly possible to be in.

The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.

West Ham have a great academy.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.

I'm really happy that West Ham and Manuel Pellegrini have given me a chance to be playing again.

I felt the same when I went to Manchester United, to Madrid, to Leverkusen, and now at West Ham. The only pressure I have is my pressure. That's it.

I was enjoying life at West Ham; I really was. I wanted to do the whole five years there, become a favourite with the fans, and end my career there.

I didn't have the chance to play at West Ham, but in football, you always have a chance. When I went to Liverpool, I had the chance to show my quality.

I'll do everything I can to get West Ham as far up the table as I can.

I had a slow start at West Ham, that's right. I came here and expectations were high because the fans were not quite happy with it. But as football players we have to deal with the pressure.