Quotes About Football

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

How does it feel? Really, I don't know because I never try to feel more or less than any player in Leverkusen or Mexico. I don't feel like I'm more famous than other players; I'm just one more footballer who wants to achieve their dreams and to try to help their team as much as they can to do that.

There are coaches who put more or less players in front of the ball; when you put lots of players ahead of the ball, the risk is magnified. There are coaches that won't contemplate that. I respect that.

When I played in Belgium, Germany and England, their cultures were similar, more or less, because these clubs are all in Europe.

Brazil always had a lot of good players, but I always enjoyed watching Kaka and Ronaldinho. They played in more or less my position.

I really liked Stoichkov when he played at Barcelona. I played in his position then... more or less! I loved to watch him on matchdays because of the personality he showed team-mates and fans.

It's a life issue more than anything when you're dealing with racism anywhere... It's a life issue - bigger than sports, bigger than football.

There is fierce competition within the city. If United are at loggerheads within the club, it just helps fuel City's cause more than anything else.

I love football more than anything in the world. People care about certain things. Me? What I care about is scoring a goal in front of 50,000 people, all screaming your name.

There are a lot of things about playing football that I miss. More than anything, I miss competing. I miss the camaraderie. I miss the locker room and the huddle and those kinds of things.

I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, 'Forget about it,' that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time.

I couldn't see playing for England at all. I had other goals at the time when I was a mortgage advisor and had different goals when I was playing non-league football.

There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.

Fletcher Moss was where it started for me and a lot of other players as well.

I want to thank Milan because the most beautiful years of my life were spent wearing that shirt.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

Football is my life, but my family's health is the most important thing in the world.

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.

In football, physical condition is very important, but the head is the most important thing. If you don't have the head, if the mentality is not good, then you are in trouble.

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'