Quotes About Football

You've got to have guys around you that also are pulling coverage to get into their spots and distributing the field the right way.

If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you've got to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the game. Now, if the game changes, and it's proven a championship can be won from the pistol spread, then I'm wrong.

I know how far a fiver can go in non-League, let alone 100,000! So it is a lot of money. That money can be spread across the country to grassroots football which is fantastic. It can help them with things like electricity bills, new kits, new footballs and lawnmowers.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

Most people think of January 1st as the start of a new year. To people who espouse to Catholicism and Christianity, they might correlate that with the birth of Christ. Us in football, the start of spring practice and the first day of summer training camp are what you look at as the New Year with fireworks going off, it's your birthday.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

To play against Luka Modric is always special because he's an exceptional player and, of course, a living legend from Spurs, where you still hear a lot about him.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

I still bump into Spurs fans who say: 'Why did you have to go?' I say back: 'What more could I have done?' I talk to them and I think they appreciate I had good reasons.

I would not leave Ajax for nothing. But Spurs are a club that I feel good about. They play good football.

Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.

I'm happy to play for Spurs.

The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.

I just thought Spurs were a challenge that I had to take on.

I know that Spurs are a team who like to play offensive football.

Spurs will always have a place in my heart. They gave me a chance to play Premier League football, and I'll be forever indebted to them.

It's always been a dream to play at a club like Spurs.

When I left West Ham in 2004 there was a chance of them signing me instead of Spurs, but it isn't something I think about too often. I've been spoilt during my career.

I hope to build a beautiful story here with Spurs like I did with Corinthians.

I do not regret it and I really enjoyed my time at Spurs. I improved a lot playing with big players.

I love the environment at Spurs.

If Spurs ever came back in me for me, I'd say no.

It's been five seasons now that I'm with Spurs, and I've got a little bit frustrated about Europe. We've got the talent to go further than we've done.

For me, it is amazing to be in England. To be in London and playing for Spurs will be great for me.