Quotes About Football

Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

Steven Gerrard with Donald McRae MY STORY

with Pittodrie Stadium – home to the intermittently disastrous Aberdeen Football Club – lurking in the background, drab and dreary in the rain. Lovely.

I don't know why I keep getting roped in with the so-called 'bad boys' of football. I really don't care, either.

English football's history is so rich and the size of the clubs around, the so-called big six, are so big that it is difficult to break into that for a club like Leicester.

You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

Soccer is my life.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.

Hopefully we will see a lot of women doing sport and especially soccer, because I love soccer.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.

My father fought for me to play football. He never had to make me shinpads, but it was a lot of money to send to me to a soccer school. And to provide boots and things.

Pro wrestling is a different animal than pro football and pro soccer. There is going to be a lot of money going out before the bulk of the money can come back in.