Quotes About Football

I chose Spurs and I think it's turned out well. I felt I was joining a great team, with great plans and the personal chats I had with people at Spurs were great.

When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

Playing Tottenham seems to rile up West Ham like nothing else - something that when I first went to Spurs I didn't really understand.

I spent so long at Spurs that it's my club. If I was to become a good coach then that would be by DNA with the way they play and the way they go about things.

I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.

You know what? For myself, I kind of like the spy because it takes another guy out of coverage or another guy out of rushing.

In Spain you fight, of course, against Real Madrid and Barcelona, and they almost never lose because they have the biggest squads, and they are two of the biggest clubs in the world. So it's really difficult.

I just remember playing in my school and then getting invited to go along to train with a development squad at Reading. My first training session, the manager said, 'You have to come and play with the academy girls,' so that would probably be my first footballing memory.

I am determined to play for Arsenal and be in the squad of Unai Emery.

If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance.

We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.

I trust Mr. Wenger like no one else, so if he says that the best way to get my place in squad back would be go on loan, it means he's right.

But in football my main aim was to become a pro. I became one and played in the first division. But then I reached the Premier League and before I knew it I was in the England squad.

You can never know if there will be a second Cruyff, someone with a great personality who can grow up and make it into the squad of the club they love. But what is certain is that, in the Champions League, there will be big clubs producing these players forever.

No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager's plans.

You need to have a big squad; it's important when you're in the Champions League, with the amount of games we've got.

I will go to Rio to support Brazil even if I'm not in the squad.

I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.

I am not obsessed, but it is natural that doing well for PSG is the only way I can push back into the squad.

You only have to look at the England squad to see the amount of players who get in the squad and start the games - the majority play in the Champions League.

I don't know how you get in the England squad without getting in the Arsenal team.

I'm always playing jokes, even on the manager - some, not many. I want to try and keep my place in the squad.

I like English football because you play all the games from the start of the Premier League to the very last game always 100%. Even when squads in the last two or three games have just been relegated, they still play 100%.