Quotes About Football

My aims have always been to win titles and cups, to qualify for European football and to play in the Europa League or the Champions League.

I'm joining Chelsea hopefully to win more titles.

In my second season at Tottenham, things didn't go as I wanted but I accepted the offer from Chinese football and there I recovered my confidence and I won titles.

Bolton was another important stage for me. I learned a lot, even if I didn't fight for any titles. We were not too close, only one semi-final of the FA Cup and then I went to Sunderland for only four or five months and we fought relegation.

Keylor is an experienced goalkeeper who has won important titles.

I really like the Premier League and to have the opportunity to play for Chelsea and win titles.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

I've always been a centre-half, to be honest.

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

To be honest, from England Under-16s, through the 17s and 18s, really all the way through my youth career, I played at centre-half. For some reason, when I made my debut at Everton, I just played in central midfield, and it went from there.

The football world needs to live by its promises and live by the diversity codes. They need to be promoting opportunities for the less privileged. That's what I want to see.

When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

That is the only way to survive in the Premier League. Every game is a battle, whether you're playing the top team or the one at the bottom of the table.

A top-class striker normally plays up on his toes, so he can sprint or go for every ball that falls in his direction.

You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all.

Ever since I started professional football at 15 there was always that togetherness and solidarity in the dressing room - it is a sanctuary. When I started football everyone believed it.

Obviously, Mitro and I both wanted the number 9 shirt, so the manager said that a shooting competition was the easiest way to decide it. But then, before we went out to training, Mitro just said 'here, Dwight, you have it'. That was it, really. It was a really nice gesture - very mature of him - and it was a sign of togetherness.

We actually had a toilet on the sideline in college. We had like a little mini-toilet; we'd go and flush it.

The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.

You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

I'm a former player, I've got a bunch of friends that I played with over the years and I've seen the toll that playing football can have on their bodies. And of course my son was a player as well.