Quotes About Football

I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

My brother went to Ohio State. I think Cris Carter just graduated, but Cris was there a lot. I got a chance to go up there and watch the battle between Ohio State and Michigan.

I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'

In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.

Playing in a city like Norman, where it's all about Oklahoma football. A no-brainer for me.

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

The FA Cup is the oldest cup competition in the world. Players are keen and willing to play in these games.

What I need to do is establish myself as Oliver Burke and not as the new Gareth Bale. To do that I need to work hard in La Liga.

Oliver Kahn against Valencia in 2001 - this was the first Champions League game I remember. I was a Bayern fan.

My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

I went and played football so I can support my family like I wanted to. Track has been my real dream, to be an Olympic champion and God gave me another opportunity.

I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing the Olympics together and England in football.

Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

When I'm talking about one of the things that define my career and what is most special to me, stats, they are what they are. The bottom line is you want to impact the place you go and the people you're around, and I hope I've done that in my football career, both on and off the field.

My footballing idol is Zinedine Zidane; he was an amazing guy on and off the field.

It's all about the chairman, listening to what he wants to do with the football club on and off the pitch.

I've been on and off with West Ham, I've had some good seasons and some not.

It was a great two years in Italy, I played a lot of games and gained experience in a different league. So you pick up new stuff, new ways of doing things, on and off the pitch, and I think that has made me a better player, and also more mature mentally.

The entire world knows what I have with Barcelona and what Barcelona have with Ronald Koeman, so if I could become Barcelona coach one day, I would be delighted.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.