Quotes About Football

I like speed, I like passion, I like this style of football. Bayern Munich, for example, are very successful and play another style. I respect their style and it is another idea about football that is very successful but, if I had to choose what style I like most of all, it is the style we play.

It's my goal to establish myself at Bayern Munich.

I am very, very happy in my life but Bayern Munich would make me a little bit happier.

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

Outside football, I like to go to musicals or the theatre. My favourite one is the 'Jersey Boys.'

It's a mutual respect, especially a player like Neymar, a player of a similar age to me and someone I've got massive respect for what he's done in world football.

Of course, Eden is a fantastic player, one of the best players in the world. He's my friend, one of the best players I've played with in my whole career.

I always watch Chelsea games when I have the time and step-by -step, game-by-game, Chelsea is growing. I speak with Branislav Ivanovic, my friend and international team-mate a lot, a few times each month, so I know everything about the club.

Since I have been called up I think I have heard from everyone I have ever come into contact with in football, which is nice. Everyone has played their own part in my development and has a story to tell on my journey.

Football has always been my number one thing, but I have other things in my life, like fashion, which is something that has always been in my family.

I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.

I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

I just want to maximize my time here on the football field and after that, I don't know what I'll do. I can coach, I can do a lot of things.

After my time with a certain NFL team, I wanted to retire.

I knew Jurgen Klopp from my time in Germany.

I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.

I think there's been a myth that QBs makes the WRs but it works hand and hand. QBs need good WRs to throw to in order to be great and WRs need good QBs to throw to them in order to be great.

When you talk about Puyol, you speak of a myth of football.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

On my podcast, I got to interview Will Ferrell, Sam Hunt, Colin Cowherd - all these different names - and it was just really cool to be able to talk to those people about things that weren't everyday life for me, which is football.

I always think when you're in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you're in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names - that's what you want.