Quotes About Football

Racism has been in football since football started, it's never going away, it's never got better. It's just noticed more because everything is on TV, everything is magnified.

If you want to play showy football and be noticed then mine isn't the position to pick.

Cam is incredible. Playing against guys like him and a great center like Ryan Kalil - I noticed him right away - is something that can only make me better.

The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.

There is no question that Notre Dame has the best, biggest and finest name in college football.

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.

Playing in America led to me getting a chance. Kicking around in the non-leagues I was going nowhere so I'm glad I did it.

I have become a bargain - where do you find a player who scores 28 goals in Serie A and costs €28m? Nowhere, right?

When I'm talking about a football brain, the very first time the ball's kicked in the air and Lukaku completely outjump's you and you get absolutely nowhere near it, that's when your brain clicks in. You know what you do, let him go and win it.Take a step off and when he flicks it on, guess what, you bring it down on your chest.

Nowhere is the same as England and that's why so many players want to come over here. That is why I would like to finish my career over here.

I love football. I mean, I've gotten a chance to spend a couple of moments with Peyton Manning and have just deeply intense great football nuance conversation with him.

I love Messi with the ball at his feet: he scores goals and does all the rest, too. But Cristiano's numbers can't be ignored. It's a cruel comparison. Both of them deserve respect.

When I started to play in school, I didn't have an idol as such, I didn't really like football in my nursery days. I used to go three times a week due to my brother's influence and also because our friends used to go as well.

My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school took me to training once. I was five at the time.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.

I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.

Inter's objective has always got to be the ultimate: win the Scudetto and get back into the Champions League.