Quotes About Football

I love football and I believe in fair play, both on and off the pitch.

As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.

Borussia are my old love, and that will remain so, but I identify with Barca 100 percent, and on the pitch, there is only one club for me.

Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.

Fans are so important to football clubs, and you have to respect that everyone has got an opinion, but we have got to do our stuff on the football pitch.

At the end of the day, it is football, and we are all important on the pitch. We must play as a team and not listen to what others are saying.

I always have the hunger to score, to be on the pitch and finish the team's moves.

When I am on the pitch, I play on intuition, but I think a lot about the game as well.

I need to keep quiet and do my talking on the pitch.

Obviously, I have arguments with people on the pitch, with all the emotions.

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

I still have a home in Sarajevo, and there is a room where the walls are covered with football jerseys. One is a Milan shirt with Shevchenko's name and number on the back. It is an original from one of his Serie A appearances, and he has autographed it. It has pride of place. It really is my prized possession.

My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play.

If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.

I can walk into Walmart in California and not really get mentioned for being a football player.

I'm a bit of a wandering gypsy on the pitch.

I've played in Birmingham and Manchester where there are supporters of rival clubs too. You have to adjust to your surroundings. You can't go wandering around Glasgow in the wrong areas. As a Celtic player you can't do that.

I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.

You don't grow up saying you wanna play in the CFL.

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

I started out wanting to coach football.

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.