Quotes About Football

There are definitely times when taking a sack is a better play than doing something else and trying to make a play when something is not there.

I don't like to see any coach get sacked - not Lopetegui, not the Huesca coach, not the Granada coach, and, of course, not the Barca coach.

If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.

Before England, I had never been sacked in my life.

When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.

If you are going to be successful in football you have to make sacrifices and that's something I am happy to do.

Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

I'm about the size of a cornerback, maybe a free safety.

I do like playing strong safety.

As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.

Lots of great players, like Zidane and Figo, are about the same age as me.

United are at a good level, but they are not on the same level as Barca.

I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.

I love it at the San Siro.

I miss everything. The field, the dressing room, the training. I miss San Siro. But I was lucky enough to experience good feelings as a player.

I'm the football manager. I make all the football decisions that evolve around the game that's being played on a Saturday.

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.

It's the thing I miss about football, I suppose: being with the team day-in day-out, getting a team ready for a Saturday afternoon, or getting yourself ready for a Saturday afternoon - it's the most difficult part.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don't see any scars on Archie Manning.

There are scenarios when I wish I would have made some different choices with the playcall.

I think that people that don't really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don't think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we're trying to do.

I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

When I was in high school, I wasn't thinking about getting a scholarship. I was thinking about trying to go and dominate. Same thing in college. I just have to focus on playing the best football I can.