Quotes About Football

I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending.

I feel I have experienced pretty much everything I can in football, winning, losing, the injury side and all the set-backs.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

I thank goodness every day that I played in the no-huddle, and it was Sam Wyche in Cincinnati who's really one of the innovators of the no-huddle.

People mainly talk about the goals in football, so that's why people talk a lot about me, but a team is created with everybody's input.

I buy a lot of Liverpool trinkets. I've got Philippe Coutinho's boot - I spent three grand on that. Which, you know, is insane. But it's Philippe Coutinho's boot, what you gonna do?

I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It might have saved me from insanity.

Those who know Neymar know his great quality and how special he is. And I insist again, we have to take care of players like that; they illuminate football. It's players like him that make football have any sense.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Thiago Silva is a great player. As I have always said, I think he is one of the best defenders in the world and he will always help inspire me to become one of the best.

We should integrate the quality of ex-players at the highest level more in football, especially in the youth sector. That is absolutely crucial for me.

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.

Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.

Xabi Alonso is a very, very intelligent and experienced player with an enormous personality.

It's fun to have wingers that cross the ball for you, but when two intelligent No. 9s play together, they understand each other better than with the wingers.

Anybody who has played with Mesut will tell you how intelligent he is as a player. His vision is probably the best I have ever seen and that is why it is so important to have the right striker ahead of him.

Ibrahimovic is a very intelligent player and there are very few strikers like him in world football.

I am very happy at Manchester City, and I intend to continue playing here for a long time.

I was born in Belgium but I never intended to play for Belgium. I never thought about that.

I love English football. I love the way people live it so intensely.