Quotes About Football

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

There are inherent risks playing football, but I think the guys understand it, and the guys not willing to take the risk, who are retiring, that's fine.

Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

It is terrible to be injured; you want to return to playing football.

When I came here, Bayern had just won the treble. I was injured, then I played two games, and was injured again for the following three matches. I spent three or four months living in a hotel. All of this, combined with adjusting from life at Dortmund, made it very difficult for me.

Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: 'If I compare with that I have been very lucky. At least I had 10 years of a beautiful experience that changed my life for ever.'

I learned not to fight against the many bad things in football and try to always battle through injuries. That's one of the most important things I learned.

I've had injuries in the past and I've always said that we earn our money when we're injured, because it's the hardest time. Playing football is the easy part because you're enjoying it.

You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.

I accept that since I went to City I haven't played great. But I haven't had a fair chance. I've had injuries too.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

I think I had a positive development at Chelsea. I was very young when I arrived, only 20, and the problem I had was injuries.

I understand football is a freaky sport, and injuries happen.

I had only one year in England and had not such a good time. Two times, I was out eight weeks with injuries.

As a forward it is always a bit easier to avoid the kind of challenges that can cause impact injuries.

I have always loved football! Of course, you have sometimes difficult times with injuries, defeats, etc., but this is part of the sport.

I can remember being at Gillingham playing in the fourth division ringing up other people I knew at clubs to see what team they would play, if they had injuries. Or you would ring a press man you knew in that area.

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just enjoyed coming in every day and playing; then it was taken away from me.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.