Quotes About Football

It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it's very important for the Mexican people. It's their passion - it's their religion - and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.

I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I'm from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.

We play a game called, 'Peru ball,' it's a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with a football and one team's going one direction, the other team's going the other direction. Get the ball across the line, the length of a soccer goal. That's it, that's the only rules.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

I got offered a short-term contract at Oldham, to sit on the bench. I was living on my mate's sofa while I was there. But that's what you've got to do to get by.

I was forced to leave my hometown, and Napoli sold me to Juventus.

I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.

I was sold by Middlesbrough to Liverpool for a record fee between two English clubs and then won European Cups at Anfield, but I couldn't have been prepared for Rangers. I was a fan as a kid and attended a lot of European nights at Ibrox. I knew the club were big. But not how big.

I am not a mercenary. Milan was my home. They made a good deal, though. They signed me for 10 million euros and sold me for 42 million euros.

Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.

I love football. I love my profession. What I don't like is cases where owners prioritise their interests over the club's. Football can't be solely about profit. Look, no one's stupid: no one wants to lose money but nor should it be about people getting rich off people's dreams.

At the start, you don't earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn't solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to live.

I remain unashamed to publicly declare my lifelong love of watching football. I have watched thousands upon thousands of games simply because I cared solely about which team won.

We have an ascending player in Brian Quick, who, I think, is going to be a very, very solid player for us.

My ambitions were always to be a solid SPL player.

PSG has got a solid project. Neymar wants to improve and grow with the club.

Usually, a team of Claudio is really very solid. They usually defend very well, sometimes low, but very well.

We want to play nice football but there are times in games and situations where you can't do that, and you have to come together and be solid.

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

I sincerely think that firing Roger Lemerre was the easiest solution. There had to be a guilty party, and it was him. He was the ideal prey. He had his share of responsibility like everybody else, like the French FA who organised friendly matches at the other end of the world, but the actors - the players - have the greatest share of it.

We need a solution for European football. You need to help smaller clubs in European competitions get the right distribution of money so they can invest in coaches and attract talent for the level they can play at.