Quotes About Football

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

I went to Holland and had a good season where I learned a lot about a different type of football. And then going to the Championship. We all know what that's like, how tough it is. And that added a different part to my game.

In Holland, I have got the buzz back playing as a centre-forward, which is where I perform best. Ajax always appealed to me from when I was young and they gave me a chance to play in the Champions League too.

When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.

I used to play as a striker in Holland. I grew up as a striker. That's the position I want to play.

I've been with clubs who won the league championships in Holland and England, which was brilliant, and to win the Champions League with Manchester United was an amazing experience.

I think we have very good facilities for the youth in Holland. We have very good youth coaches and I think that is some of the reasons that always Holland has very good football players.

Strikers in England get less time than in Holland, and it took me a while to get used to that.

But one thing I do is I know my football. I watch leagues from all over the world, I do my homework and I love football and could talk to you all day about it.

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

My father started me in football. So what better way is there to honor him than to wear his last name on my back and make him proud?

It's an honour for me to be one of PSG's forwards.

I am very proud to stay and be a Chelsea player. It is an honour to play at this club.

With Ronaldo being one of the greats, probably one of the best players ever, it's going to be an honour to hopefully play against him.

It would be honour for me to keep playing for Manchester United.

It is an honour for me that Mainz gives me the opportunity to prove myself in another top European league.

I would be absolutely delighted if I were to have a career similar to that of Schweinsteiger, both at club and international level. We all know what he has done for German football. It is an honour to be likened to him.

It's a massive honour for me to be playing for Juventus.

I have always said that for me it would be an honour to continue at Juventus and to end my career here, because it's a shirt you are proud to wear.

I've never played with someone so strong and I probably never will again in my career. Zlatan is one of the best three in the world, it's an honour to have him at PSG.