Quotes About Football

After I joined Alkmaar, I didn't score for seven League games, but soon afterwards, I started to score goals.

I didn't have a clue how big a club Celtic were when I joined.

Rafael Benitez is the best coach I have had. I don't know if I'd have joined Napoli without him being there.

Figo was my hero. Then he joined Madrid. Barca fans hated him for that. It was impossible for him to be a hero any more, but now that I'm a professional, I see things differently.

When I joined Arsenal in 2000 I learned a lot from Dennis Bergkamp. He was the mind of the team and he made things look easy.

Fans should remember Thierry Henry when he joined Arsenal. He didn't score much before becoming an icon of this club.

I'm so excited to be joining Arsenal. It's a fantastic club, and I'm really looking forward to the opportunity of playing football at the highest level.

I am very happy to be joining Chelsea.

But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.

I was very close to joining Manchester United.

Winning the treble was confirmation for me that joining Bayern rather than moving abroad was the right decision.

Pellegrini was the biggest factor for me to be joining West Ham.

My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United?

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.

Kyriakos Papadopoulos is really funny. So is Karim Bellarabi. They are full of jokes in the dressing room.

There are runners and there are runners… and then there's Gale Sayers."

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.

I certainly didn't want to fight with him. I did, however, want to shout, "Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss" -- all those things I so cherishly cuddled in my slef-pitying bosom. I didn't, of course, say any such thing

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.

The nicknames - people say they couldn't understand it, but look, I have really enjoyed my time away from 3AW, and I have discovered one thing - that I am more than just a yelling fanatical football follower who makes up nicknames.

There's nothing like having a football coach yelling at you at homecoming in front of a bunch of people. You do kind of get used to being inflappable in front of all that heated emotion. At times, that's very useful in business.

Imagine being a running back or a receiver. You get tackled, and then when you get up, you're surrounded by a bunch of guys, and they're all screaming and yelling at you... Mentally, it wears on you, like, 'God, how long can I do this?' It's a mental thing.