Quotes About Football

I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

In my time at Arsenal, we had a really good balance. We had players who were fast, players who were really strong physically, and players who were really creative. When you look at the generation of Arsenal at the moment, they may be playing better football than we used to, but they win less than we used to - so, where's the balance?

I love football, and I love to play, and I want to play until I physically can't - whatever age that is.

Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

I'll tell you, people remember every single pick I make against their team, they really do. There's just so much passion in college football, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.

I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old enough to drive yet - so I had to get picked up and taken in!

I am never not going to want to play for England so I don't care how old I am. If I am doing well I hope I am going to get picked.

I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.

I've been a Gunner for life. They play similar football to Barcelona. So ball movement and player movement is important to me in basketball; I think I picked it up from watching those guys.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

He has ambition and hunger, but I would not say Messi is the only piece of art at Barca.

A piece of my heart will always be with Liverpool.

When I was growing up, I always liked playing football, and my mum always took me to football games. I owe her a lot. She was my pillar. She was the biggest influence on me.

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.

Even though I'm in the changing room and I know I am, you still have to pinch yourself every night that you can say you're a Manchester United player.

There's no loyalty in football and you take it with a pinch of salt.

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's no way I would play now rather than the era I played in. We had a life.

I got married, had two kids, watched a lot of football, drunk a lot of pints, etc.

You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.