Quotes About Football

Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.

Characters may lend the action a certain colouring, but it is what happens that comes first. To overlook this while watching a tragedy would be like treating a football game simply as the acts of a set of solitary individuals, or as chance for each of them to display 'personality'. The fact that some players behave as though this is precisely what football games are about should not distract us from this point.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.

She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football.

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

I was lucky in that I played in a Liverpool team alongside the likes of Raheem Sterling, Jon Flanagan, Andre Wisdom and Suso and you knew that these players were special.

Josh McEachran is a great player.

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

I have had disagreements with journalists, but they annoy me so much when they don't talk about football.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

Playing for Liverpool at Anfield is a very joyous and positive experience.

If you want to speak about scoring goals, you should judge every midfielder the same way.

My message is simple to all the knockers: I am knuckling down and want to play my football with a great club and a great manager. Then you can judge me.

I miss scoring lots of goals, but I have always thought that a striker should not be judged just by the amount of goals he scores. The work he does for the team is also important.

Football is wonderful because everyone can have an opinion and make judgements about what they think and see.

As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don't.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I know that my career is up for public judgment, but I also know that in football, things change.

Once I started playing as a striker, I'd say I looked up to Julie Fleeting and Thierry Henry.

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.

I used to love jumping into the bushes in my back garden, thinking I was jumping into the crowd after I scored in front of the Holte End.

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.