Quotes About Football

Of course it would be nice to go to another Champions League final and hopefully win it again one day, but for me, the Premier League is the best trophy to have.

I want to score more than 30 goals, but I would prefer to score 15 or 20 and get the Premier League or one big trophy.

At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn't do it. That was a lot to take. At Newcastle, the expectations to win a trophy were enormous. The No. 1 thing everyone up there thinks about is the football club.

The Champions League is the biggest trophy. Everybody in the world wants to win it.

The Champions League is one trophy that I need to win.

I want to be in goal and play for Liverpool every week and then win a trophy with the club. That's what everyone wants. I want to do my part and help.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

The Champions League enjoys a special status. It's the most attractive trophy you can win.

We play for Liverpool. It is always our intention to win. All the players here want to compete at the top and win. The manager does not have to say to us, 'We want to win a trophy.'

I am absolutely satisfied with my experience in English football because despite the two dismissals it allowed me to win more than one trophy and to live in a different environment from Italy, where I feel very happy.

I grew without having a thing about the Ballon d'Or. When I was young, Ballon d'Or was also given to the European players. I didn't grow with this ambition. I think it's a personal trophy and football is a team game.

The 2002 Premier League was the best trophy for me.

A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn't stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

I'm almost happy for Gary Neville's troubles at Valencia. I remember he was too harsh as a TV pundit.

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.

The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.

LSU is the only fan base that truly knows Tyrann. I couldn't play for another school. I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't have given my all playing for another school. I was only going to give my all for LSU.

When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

I have learned in football that you can't trust anyone and if you listen to what everyone says, more often than not it doesn't happen. So when I'm told 'so-and-so are interested' or 'such-and-such have done this' I don't get caught up in it all.

The most important club in the world is Tottenham. And it is the best club in the world. I need to feel like this, and that emotion is real because I cannot be fake. It's too difficult to create the trust if you don't really believe, and it's not real, that emotion.

I don't know why Mourinho didn't trust me.

If I score against Tottenham, trust me - I'm going to celebrate.