Quotes About Football

In terms of pressure, El Clasico is unique, but also a match against PSG is a stimulating and exciting clash.

Messi is a good stimulus for Cristiano.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.'

Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.

Of course it's a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.

I played at Anfield twice when I was with Stoke and it's a hard place to go, we all know that Liverpool is one of the best teams in the Premier League.

Stoke are a team who are very well organised and very disciplined.

Whichever way the result goes, my 1,000th game will be at Stoke and I had great times there.

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

Monmouth was important to me because that was the first stepping stone. I am very grateful to the Monmouth program for taking a chance on a four-year lacrosse player who had a year of eligibility left. It was an awesome experience to go back there and play football again, especially since it was close to home.

The dream of those who come to Genoa is that they use it as a stepping stone towards a big club.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

In Uruguay, there is a football pitch every hundred metres, whether it is made by grass, small stones, or sand. This has been my football education.

I personally like the way John Stones plays because I think he's a great defender.

Going out to France three years ago to watch Euro 2016 was massive and when I was there, stood in the crowd, I wanted to be part of that as a player.

I remember so many times, playing for City in which Man United would give us a whooping, and the fans always stood beside us.

I knew if I got an offer from Alabama, that's where I wanted to go... just because I liked what they stood for. I liked that they were winning.

Adama Traore and Diogo Jota are incredibly fast and difficult to stop.

For me, nothing bad can happen on a football pitch. You could be growing up in chaos, everything could be going crazy around you, but if you have a ball at your feet, you stop thinking. Everything is quiet, peaceful.

Pele revolutionized football. Pele stopped a war. Pele united countries, united families.

You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.