Quotes About Football

Im very aware of how lucky I was to be paid to kick a football around. But Ill never change. You can change your lifestyle, but if money changes you, youve got a problem.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Even when I was growing up and playing with friends I used to get kicked.

As long as I can remember, I've always kicked a ball.

I get kicked every game, it's part of football, I just try to get on with it.

You know the madness of the English football season has kicked in when a fan rings up 606 and says Arsenal will win the title.

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.

At Sunderland, all the girls knew each other. I wasn't that extroverted person to go join in. I was a little bit in my shell. But as soon as I started kicking a football, it was fine.

My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.

I just loved kicking a ball but I was determined to be a footballer and I wanted a professional contract, I would go to any professional club to get one. From 15, all I wanted was to be a footballer.

Ronaldinho and David Beckham, they took free kicks and took them very well, so there are some players I always try to follow and to learn important things from so that I am able to score goals.

Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson.

Ronaldinho takes great free kicks and has scored a lot of nice goals from free play.

I learnt to do bicycle kicks watching Robinho on the television.

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

Most schools, the football players are kind of the kings in school.

I was not a Liverpool fan or a Chelsea fan in Madrid. I was an Atletico fan. I still am. Maybe they're the only badge I will kiss.

My wife's family kept inviting me to shoot and I just didn't want to go, but since retiring from football I've had more time and I thought... let's get all the kit and practice.

I had the Celtic kit when I was young, the full kit as well. This has always been the club I've thought about.

I am into coaching and punditry, but I do miss being able to run around and kick a football which I can't do because of my knee. I had always been alright but it plagued my last season at Reading.

Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.