Quotes About Football

Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day.

I live for football, and my real passion is just to go out there and express myself and show everybody what I'm capable of doing. It's what I've always known since I was a kid.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I'm just grateful I get to play football every single day of my life. So I'm never really in a bad mood.

Every single thing related to Old Trafford is amazing. When I was a little kid, I dreamed of playing in a real field, but I never imagined something as fantastic as this.

I have a great deal of respect for Sir Alex Ferguson. He has done a great job. Without any doubt, he is one of the best and most influential around. He is the embodiment of football.

Not everyone can say they were signed by Sir Alex Ferguson and Man United.

Not many people know this but my team in England is Manchester United. Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, George Best, all great players. We created a bond when we played each other and I still speak to Bob from time to time, though I can't get used to calling him 'Sir Bobby.'

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

It will not get better than Sir Alex Ferguson. It just won't.

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.

I am proud to have been part of a Sir Alex Ferguson team.

I played for 20 years for Sir Alex Ferguson, and he could be a scary man.

Sir Alex Ferguson already has his place in the history books; he is definitely one of the best coaches ever.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

Manchester United is a world-famous club, and yet if you say, 'Manchester United,' then immediately you think of Sir Alex Ferguson. To have achieved so much and have so much importance at such a big club is extremely rare.

If Sir Alex says, 'Listen, I want you to play for my team,' it's very difficult not to say yes.

Arsenal needs Arsene Wenger, but also Arsene Wenger needs Arsenal. For me, he will die at Arsenal. He is like Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. After you think about Ferguson and United, you then think about Wenger and Arsenal.

Sir Alex Ferguson must be very high up on the list of greatest managers ever. Then there is Fabio Capello, and people forget how much Giovanni Trapattoni achieved at Inter and especially Juventus.

My sister plays for PSG. My brother played, too, but not professionally. So I had no choice!

When I was growing up, my father would gather all of his children, seven brothers and seven sisters, around the television set and we would religiously watch every time Notre Dame played.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

I'm on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.