Quotes About Football

To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

I don't know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.

Alisson is a top-class goalkeeper, from what I've seen. He performed brilliantly for Roma, and for Brazil as well.

Football will always be part of my life. I've taken an interest in it since I was a young boy; my father played, as did I, and I never miss the chance to organise a little match with my friends when my schedule permits it. I also follow the results of the major European leagues quite closely.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

That attitude, that persona I carry is something I've always had with me. I mean, that's what made me successful, especially in football, and is making me successful now.

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.

When Atletico wanted to sell me, I was told that I earned too much money and they wanted me off the wage bill. I liked that honesty.

It's not so long ago I was paying £250 a season to play. I don't think in my lifetime it will ever get to wage parity with the men, but we have made so many great strides already.

With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.

In the end, we should not forget that playing football is our job. So people should accept that wages will always play a role in a player's decision-making.

At Inter, I earned my wages based on the results on the field.

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.

You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

I don't care about wages or fees, I just want to improve my football, which is a side to me that the fans aren't aware of.

I was semipro at Tooting & Mitcham. They paid the tax and we got paid cash in hand. I told my mum, 'I'm getting paid to play football' and she took half of my wages. So of my very first paycheque, my mum got half of it. I call it 'mummy tax.'

I'm delighted to join Huddersfield Town Football Club, ahead of what I'm sure will be a really exciting season and I can't wait to get started.

I am thrilled to be signing for City and can't wait to get started.

I had a contract with England, it was going to finish, and in football you can't really wait until your contract runs out.

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.