Quotes About Football

Those of us who have feeling, who are sensitive, who can be affected, need a good shield. Footballers are very young and they're exposed. Even at under-15s, players have Twitter and I'm sure they're already getting insults... it's ugly, it sullies society and football.

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.

Going to places like Tynecastle, where you're so close to the crowd, you get reminded how ugly you are and stuff like that!

I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.

I've benefitted a lot from coming back to the UK, but mainly playing for a club like Leeds where it is a pressure cooker environment.

Willian is fantastic. It was good to be with him in Ukraine, where we won several titles together.

When I got to Ukraine the league was strong.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims - it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can't get.

I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.

Communication is key in any relationship - especially in a team sport, and football is the ultimate team sport.

Ultimately, one of the best decisions I ever made was when I became a Buffalo Bill.

Ultimately, a running back has to get rid of tacklers without his blockers being a part of it.

It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.

This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.

It's unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.

Maradona, I think, is not a football player but he's something different. He was unbelievable.

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Messi is unbelievable, but Ronaldo does it on his own. In Madrid, he has to score the goals and create them.

Ronaldo is the best of the best, I mean not only as a football player but also as a human being. You can see how he developed and how devoted he is to really staying on top every year to excel. I think that is something unbelievable, and I said it before and will say it again: he is an athlete, and an athlete is a positive thing.

Of course, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi make a lot of goals, but what Ronaldinho used to do was unbelievable. He used to be amazing on the field, and also scored a lot of goals.

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Leicester have been unbelievable to me, and I'm really happy there, but I'm also an ambitious player, and everyone wants to play at the top.