Quotes About Football

During the first season of European football at Hoffenheim after we lost the Champions League knockout game to Liverpool, I changed a lot of players between Bundesliga matches and the Europa League for fresh legs. I learnt that we needed more stability. You need to keep five or six of the same places to give you structure, to be your spine.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Craven Cottage is a great stadium, really traditional, going through the rows of houses until a stadium suddenly appears.

The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river stand; that was a great place to watch football. When the football wasn't very good, people used to turn around and watch the boats on the river.

There is no better place to put things right than at the San Siro. It's the perfect stadium to play in.

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

There's not many Premier League clubs as big as Sunderland, with their fanbase and stadium and facilities.

The Santiago Bernabeu is an amazing stadium.

Santiago Bernabeu is the best stadium I have ever played in. I enjoy every minute on its pitch.

When you come into Camp Randall Stadium to play a game, you better double-clutch your chinstrap because you're going to be in a smash-mouth game.

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

For me, Old Trafford is a stadium where you like to play and win.

I always leave for the stadium on the second bus. Never the first. And I have to have new shoes - brand new shoes - for every game. Same with gloves. But I don't use my gloves in pregame, so the first football I catch with my new gloves each game is the first ball I catch in the game.

Arsenal remains a big club, but the building of Emirates Stadium changed a lot of things.

It's a massive experience: playing against Galatasaray and Besiktas, you can feel the atmosphere. It feels like the stadium is going to fall down due to the fans singing and bouncing.

An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.

It's a dream that we, as women footballers, get to play in the same stadium as the men.

It was amazing to be playing at Stamford Bridge with the stadium full.

Whenever I score for Manchester City, my mother calls me. As soon as the ball hits the back of the net, the phone rings. It doesn't matter if she's back home in Brazil or if she's in the stadium watching me. She calls me every time. So I run to the corner flag, and I put my hand to my ear, and I say, 'Alo Mae!'

I'm a humungous Browns fan. My 30th birthday was actually at the Browns' stadium.

In Portugal, there are just four or five teams who have 30,000 fans in their stadium, but teams in the middle of the table don't have many fans.

I would like to concentrate fully on football during the Euro, and I would feel much better if my family is not sitting in the stadium.

We want to see football. If people want to see acting, they go somewhere else, not the stadium.

The only thing that Celtic doesn't have is the propaganda, which is the Premier League. In every other aspect of football, Celtic is a huge club: fan base, stadium and history. They have a fantastic history. What it doesn't have is the opportunity to play in the Premier League.