Quotes About Football

I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It's crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I'm sure it's not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that's basically what I did.

Glute bridges make sure my hips are staying in line. Making sure that I'm not putting added stress on the hamstrings, hip flexors, or groin. Being able to stabilize the hips is pretty much the center of playing football, so you can stay healthy.

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

My mum and dad were very strict with me and I am grateful for that because all I wanted to do was play football and I didn't want to go to school.

Some things that started in pre-season and then, you know what, the season gets started, you kind of forget about it and then move on to football, and it's strictly football until the season finishes.

Football's football. You're going to come across the good and the bad, but you've got to take it all in your stride.

The goal is to hit your stride, stay in the hunt and be playing your best football in December.

With the big clubs embracing women's football and the professionalism you see at the likes of Liverpool, Birmingham, Arsenal and my club Chelsea, it's really impressive. We're making great strides.

I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.

I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

Maybe that's my only remorse, not having played more alongside Ibrahmovic towards the end of my career with Milan. We had an incredible feeling - he was delighted when I scored and I think we were made to play together and be a strike partnership.

Ronaldinho is very complete. He's a good header of the ball, he strikes it well with both feet, he dribbles, he scores.

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

For sure, I would like to continue my life with the strings of football by being a coach, manager - I don't know. But one thing is clear: I will continue doing something related to football.

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the country park playing in a Celtic strip in England.

Playing at the top level in the Premier League - that's where I strive to be.

My career goal is to be a Hall of Famer. That's what I strive to be. I want to be the very best to do it. To win Super Bowls is a part of that, but the end goal is to be a Hall of Famer.

We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.

Iran are very strong because we have many good players playing top-class football in Spain, Germany and England.

I've got leverage on a guy that's 6-6, and I'm strong enough to push 600-plus pounds off on a double-team.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

Ligue 1 is much stronger than people give it credit for.

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.