Quotes About Football

I've always said I prefer playing on the right. But I can play at a top level on both sides so I'm happy to play wherever the manager thinks it will bringing the team success.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

I don't regret my choice to sign for Milan.

I couldn't sign for Barca, as I can't play football the way Xavi wants.

Having Neymar at Real Madrid would be a huge pleasure. Madrid have to do everything to sign the best players in the world and his past at Barcelona would not be a problem.

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.'

When I first signed for Newcastle, I was still a boy.

I feel rejected in France. And do you know why I signed for Bayern when I could have gone anywhere? Because they made me feel wanted.

I have always had confidence in my ability; I knew I'd get a chance coming here. That's one of the main reasons why I signed for Tottenham.

I signed a five-year contract with Barcelona. I'll be here for a long time.

When I signed for Espanyol, all I was thinking about was that I needed continuity in the first division.

When I signed for Real Madrid, it was like a dream.

In my first season after Mancini signed me, I was injured a lot, but when I was fit, he did play me.

It was strange joining Chelsea, but when I signed, I knew I would be loaned out to a team. They had, like, a five-year plan for me.

I never said Arsenal fans were not good. I just said I saw real passion when I signed here, and I said Arsenal was a little bit different. That is the only thing I said.

The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.

Obviously, when I signed for Middlesbrough, I was hoping that we would stay up and that I'd be a big player for them in the Premier League.

I signed for Ajax in 1989 when I was still at school.

I was 32 when I signed for Everton, and Roberto Martinez said, 'With your style of game, you can play until you're 40.' I'm sitting there laughing at him, but he was deadly serious. I still laughed.

There would have been no Barcelona, and a lot of other things besides, for me if I hadn't signed for Celtic.

Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.