Quotes About Football

To walk out at Wembley in an England shirt is a big deal for a girl who remembers playing in her local football cage down the park in Poplar with the boys.

I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.

Every time I walked into White Hart Lane, I got goosebumps. I felt so privileged to play there, to make the people happy.

It's great because growing up, especially being a Raiders fan and then playing with Marcus, I was like, 'Holy smokes, that's Marcus Allen' when I first walked in and saw him.

I played semi-professionally for a season, and there's an element of performance to being a footballer, stepping onto the pitch: you feel like a gladiator walking into a colosseum.

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.

When we go out to train, there's like this big microwave which heats the boots up so when you put them on it feels nice and it's not tough and hard. When you have studs that are metal, they get boiling hot. So when Jorginho walks out and everyone is putting their boots on, he puts a hot stud on your leg. It burns your leg.

In my day, 20-year-olds already had 150 first-team appearances under their belts.

This is why I had to go to Swansea. I didn't want to stay on the bench for another year.

I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.

I knew it was against the rules to bet on football, but when you've got an addiction you just want to win that money back.

I was a piece of meat. I was betrayed by the business of football.

Football really has saved my family and it's true that it saves a lot of families in Africa. It gives us the means to be able to give a better life to our loved ones.

I believe the more you come to Europe, it makes you a better player, and it gives them an advantage because the African style is different from the European style.

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

Playing in Europe is a big deal, it helps you to grow.

Eden is the type of player who can make a big difference when he comes on, even for 20 minutes.

There's a big difference between Neymar and me. I've been a professional for two years. Neymar is one of the best in the world.

It was a dream of mine to play in all the big leagues.

It's always going to be difficult for Asian countries to create big leagues because Europe is so settled.

In England, somewhere. I want to be at a big team, in the big leagues again.

Goals are a big part of my game. Maybe in my first few games at Tottenham, I didn't show that - I wasn't getting forward enough.