Quotes About Football

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.

In my position, I've always admired Claude Makelele. I grew up watching him play. I was able to play against him in the final stages of his career. I have always liked his way of playing football, and given my position and style, he's been a mirror to compare myself against.

When you consider the depths to which major college football coaches are willing to sink in order to protect their programs, Tyrann Mathieu's dismissal from LSU is staggering.

It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

You don't have time to think about things that aren't as important as football and the points that are at stake in the games that we have to win and do well in.

My toenails are out of my foot because of all the stamps I have received during games. But it's fine. This is the Premier League and the way they play here.

My mum says that, when I was a couple of months old and couldn't even stand up yet, I'd try and kick a ball. She knew I'd be into football. Maybe I was just destined to do this.

I like it in Denmark. The league is very good and all the teams are of a similar standard.

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.

The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn't like that feeling.

There's not one person that sets the standard better to be a New York Football Giant than Eli Manning.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

When I talk about football from a studio standpoint, I try to cut through the minutia and get to the point.

I think the game of football, from a commentating standpoint, is missing something. I think it should be a celebration, and I think it should be enjoyable, and I'm trying to make it that way.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

I'm sad when I see San Siro with empty stands.

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?