Quotes About Football

One day, I hope I can play in MLS.

I hope to play in Europe one day. It is one of my objectives.

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.

I always believe that hard work is something that gets you to where you need to be, and I know in football it's not a one-man game.

I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

At the time, when I was growing up,my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

At Sunderland, our kit was five times too big, and we got the local bus to games; in America, I got bags of Nike kit, flew to away games, and played in front of thousands of fans. It opened my eyes to what women's football could - and should - be.

I never really understood the game until I saw Cruyff's Barcelona play. The first time that happened it opened up a new world to me. I began to understand that football was a collective thing, and that association between players meant you could keep the ball the whole game.

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

When a Brazilian player comes to England and is successful, he ends up opening doors to other players.

There is no bigger stage than Old Trafford on the opening day of the season.

Madrid always opens its doors to great players.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.

Strangers always look big on the football field.

I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

Ok. So the yard is here. It's a football field. Don't call it a yard. Grass where people sit and hang out is a yard. We stole things here, but that doesn't make it a bank.

I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.