Quotes About Football

If I do well at Chelsea, then the national team will take care of itself.

If someone plays five good games in a row for the Bavarians, there is more talk about them being in the national team than of those who play five good games in a row for Dortmund or Wolfsburg or Bayer Leverkusen.

It's always a dream to play for the national team.

I'm happy to be scoring important goals in the national team and here in Guangzhou, too.

I want to play in Europe, as the national team is important for me.

I play with players in the Brazilian national team who are similar to those at Chelsea - Kaka, Neymar.

I have always fought to play for great clubs and to play for the Brazilian national team.

Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.

I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women's national team for women's football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we've done in order to become as successful as we have.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.

When I was little, I loved Alessandro Del Piero, who made history with Juventus and the national team. And growing up, once I took to the pitch, I looked closely at what Andrea Pirlo was doing.

Argentina is immensely better with him than without him. They should be proud to have Messi in their national team.

I would like to play for the national team but it's the coach's decision and I have to respect it.

Inside the opponent's 45-yard line, facing anything less than fourth and eight, teams are better off going for it than punting. Inside the opponent's 33-yard line, they are better off going for it on anything less than fourth and 11.* Regardless of field position, on anything less than fourth and five, teams are always better off going for it.

Sean's our boy, big into computer games and football, wants to help the Redskins build a dynasty, though he doesn't really know what that means.

But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave me—I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow.

An even more pointed reminder of changed circumstances, of course, is the AIG symbol sported, doubtless with some chagrin, by Manchester United, worth £14 million a year to the club when the deal was done thirty months ago, but now as ignominiously conspicuous as mouthing a slogan for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in May 1937: 'You'll always travel Fuhrer class on the Hindenburg!' Man

All of us watch the man with the ball. Accordingly football has come to be thought of in terms of individuals. The artisans engaged in a manœuvre are forgotten because of the glory of the hero who actually completes the play.

Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here...She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.

That was the way it worked there. Blame the fuck-up, feel sorry for the football Hero.

It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

My dad, my uncle and my whole family loves football.