Quotes About Football

Two-footed players always get a lot more recognition, so I always practised as a kid with my right foot.

Having a big brother who taught me protections and blitz recognition has helped out a lot.

With the many blessings I've received through football, my wife, Ashli, and I started the Mike Evans Family Foundation to be a blessing to others. We don't do it for the recognition. It just makes us feel good to give back.

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

If you play in Holland, you aren't recognized as a very good player.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

If you watch most quarterbacks in the league, if you take more than two hitches, there's a good chance you'll be sacked. By recognizing things, it allows you to get to your fourth or fifth read on your second hitch and get the ball out of your hand.

Even though I feel very privileged to play football, with the things I have experienced within the game, it is not something I would be shouting from the rooftops, to recommend to people's children to be footballers. Because there are a lot of things that happen on a day-to-day basis at club football that I wouldn't wish on anybody.

I would recommend all players go to Napoli, it is a gratifying and successful place.

I went to Japan to experience a new culture, and I would recommend that any footballer does that. But the main reason I went was to play football.

The Bundesliga is a strong league and a good place to go. One can only recommend the Bundesliga.

Even though I am not going to coach in the future, if I had to pass on a recommendation, it would be to base your game on having a strong defence.

My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

I try to play my game; I try my best to recover the ball quickly: that's my job.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

It's very difficult in England because the season is very long and hard compared to other places. There's not a lot of recovery time at all, not even a break at Christmas. You just have to do your best and get on with it.

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

Having my name kind of pop out on a page more so than other people helped in recruiting, helped in a lot of different areas. But when it comes down to it and you're talking about professional football - you can either play, or you can't. They don't care what your last name is at the end of the day.

A lot of kids, especially football players, had been using Twitter for recruiting.

In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.

You're working a million hours and you're on the road recruiting and you're doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you're competing for a championship. You're competing for a Big Ten Championship, you're in the Rose Bowl, you're taking your family to the Cotton Bowl.