Quotes About Football

The No. 33 represents my own rise in football. It was the number of the first shirt that I wore at Palmeiras, so I feel a real affection for it.

For many players the opportunity to be able to play with Messi represents a huge incentive.

We Argentines do not realise what Leo represents for the whole world.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

I'm not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.

If you are hurting inside, you can't really show it because you want the team to do well because that's part of football.

It hurts a lot to see United not winning.

When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku!

All of the best pass-rushing teams are the ones that seem to have these hybrid rush ends.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

I get hyped every day I get to put a helmet on.

Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.

I've been really, really fortunate, everything from football on has been icing on the cake, so I'm living my dream.

The No 10 shirt? Yes, I understand what it means in Brazil. The icon number. Yes, it's important. It is the number given to a creative player, and I am happy to have that responsibility, but it is not your shirt number that defines you: it is what you do with a football.

Id rather play Barcelona and out-possess them and out-score them than not.

If have done well for Leeds then Id have loved to have played for Manchester United, that would have been great.

Everyone can throw a football, but if you can't ID fronts, if you can't see pressure, you're not going to last long.

My perfect first date? Maybe a concert or a football game. That would be my ideal first date, but would the girl like it? I don't know.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me.

Iniesta is my ideal player. I've watched him throughout my career and hoped to be like him. It's fun to watch him play and that's the kind of football I'd like to play.

After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'