Quotes About Football

Messi is simply unique. We are never going to find another player like him, and Barcelona will miss him when he retires.

Modric is a great player, one of the best in the world. But Messi is like at a separate table, plays at another level.

When Messi is playing there are always more chances to win games.

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

Oh, I'm going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.

The players love Guardiola's methods and it shows on the pitch. I think every player would like to work with him.

The worst coach I have ever had was Roberto Mancini. I never liked his training methods.

I have never played in Mexico. It is something I have always wanted to do and I would not close the door on any offer.

I'm proud of being part of the Mexico attack, and I want to show who I am.

With Ajax, I played Mexico in Mexico City, and our players could hardly keep up for half the match.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

My football career was so filled with energy and impactful, as a University of Miami player and the things I did in Canada, that I left a good mark. I left a good impression.

Playing for the Giants for four years, you had this idea that the Jets are the other team, and then, going to Miami and playing in the same division, you learned to hate them as well.

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

I worked in Ann Arbor for two years, covering Michigan football and basketball in the early 1990s.

Central Michigan was the one FBS team that recruited me hard.

I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.

I jumped on the Brady Hoke bandwagon in 2003 when he left an assistant job at Michigan to be the head coach at our alma mater. During his six years at Ball State, we were close.

I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'

Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

I think I've shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

When I play in central midfield, that's my favourite position.