Quotes About Football

I do not like the red carpet; I prefer the green pitch.

When I'm out and about or walking my dogs, United fans are coming up to me saying, 'We'd rather City win the league than Liverpool.' It's strange to hear, but I can assure you the United players aren't going to leave a red carpet and say, 'Go on, City, score past us.'

My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

I just like going against the Redskins, I guess.

Honestly bro, it was one of them situations where I kind of hated the Redskins, you feel me? Like, that was my rivals. Being an Eagle, that was like my rivals.

I believe in Daniel Snyder. I believe in his great passion for the Washington Redskins.

The evolution of football has seen a reduction in the space between the teams. It is therefore important for the modern footballer to react and be quicker than in the past, because there is more happening in the restricted space.

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.

I'm not Ed Reed. I'm Eric Weddle, and you're going to get a great Eric Weddle that does a lot of amazing things on the football field. And there's no pressure; pressure is self-inflicted.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

I get told off by my mum for being a bit rough on the pitch. I'm in the referee's ear a lot - referees probably hate me - but it's just part of my game. My mum tells me off for that as well; speaking to refs too much.

When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.

Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

I've played for Real Madrid and Inter, clubs at the highest level, but Corinthians is a well-organised club and a reference for our country.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge.

When you come to a club like Hibs not everyone can handle it, there's pressure in every single game to get results.

It's tough to be left out. At Chelsea I've probably played 90 per cent of the time. It's not something I handle very well.

Richard Sherman's my favorite defensive player, so it's cool to be talking with him, hanging out with him.

I take risks; sometimes I lose the ball. It happens. This is the football.

I just want to enjoy my football. That's when I am at my happiest.

I am a happy man. I am no longer out on the pitch but I still live in the football world.

I moved cities when I was 17, and I moved countries when I was 20. Every time, I put football at the forefront and, if you do that, you don't have such a hard time settling in.

As a player I had some good times but people forget I had a lot of hard times to get there; seven years in the lower divisions.

No one's saying anything against healthy, fair hardness. That's a part of football. But referees must look more closely and make sure limits are not exceeded.