Quotes About Football

My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it's always hindered me.

I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.

I think they shouldn't allow cut blocks, because our knees are important to us, too. I know concussions are a big deal, too, but I think knee, cut blocks are a big deal, but that seems to be OK with the NFL. So they're not too concerned about safety, obviously.

When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.

If Manchester United come knocking, you can't turn that down.

I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.

You gain know-how from playing matches because every moment of a football match has its own rhythm.

Gareth Southgate is a fantastic manager, and he knows what I am about.

Football can make things different, and football can make change around the world. I hope football can do something for Korea.

I have good memories of DPR Korea because I played there twice and won both the games.

It was difficult at Atletico Madrid. It was my first experience in Europe when I went there and La Liga was hard.

From the level, both leagues are equal. You'll win no game easily. It's always a lot of work. This is true in La Liga as well as in the Bundesliga. You must always give all you have.

I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

I'll give everything I have to be one of the best players in La Liga.

I think I won everything I wanted with Real: La Liga, the Champions League, and the Copa Del Rey.

There won't be more Messis, and we don't expect there to be more, as there won't be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.

Historically, Barcelona win La Liga when they win the Champions League.

I don't have a lot of time to lose and I would like to win the Champions League or La Liga. If I could win them both, even better.

Before I retire I'd like to play in La Liga.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

The 49ers didn't have a first-round pick—it had been traded years earlier to the Bills in the O.J. Simpson trade—and Walsh was hoping to take Simms at the top of the second round. But the Giants took Simms seventh overall, and Walsh had to settle for Joe Montana with the last pick in the third round.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.