Quotes About Football

I have said in the past that I would be happy to see out my career at Chelsea. I moved here to play in the best league in the world with one of the strongest teams.

The Dutch league is not one of the strongest five leagues in the world, or even Europe, and that's why it is difficult to maintain.

Since I left Juventus, which remains the strongest team in Italy, I never thought about playing for another Italian club. I'm just not thinking about it.

The Spanish and the English leagues are the strongest.

I have remained a Lazio fan and that was the strongest team I ever coached.

It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.

My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.

I strongly favour attractive football.

I am a member of the Heads Up Football Advisory Committee, have participated in a Heads Up Football clinic, and strongly endorse the program. It's a better, safer way to play the game.

I strongly believe that if you can survive for seven years in Italian football, you can make it anywhere else.

I feel we could be doing more to connect the increasing revenues in football to some kind of deeper purpose. This is what struck me about Common Goal. Through the one percent pledge, we are building a bridge between football and social impact around the world.

I've always been a great lover of Barcelona and the structure of the club.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

Argentina has never been able to convince itself that it can win in Brazil. For some reason we have always struggled.

Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

I've got quite a few people who I hold close to my heart and I trust, and a lot of footballing opinions that I care about.

I guess football is a game of opinions.

I just play hard-hitting football, but at least I look the opponent in the face before I hit him.

Football doesn't depend just on your brain. It's not like on a computer. It depends on your body, too, and sometimes you are tired. Sometimes the opponent closes the space very well and marks you very well. Football depends on many things, not just on you.

To show respect for the opponent is to go and kill with every single action. That is the way you show it. You need to be aggressive. That is how I understand football.

When I watch Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund side, I see a manager who is determined to play in his opponent's half, who is committed to attacking football, and, from the way he conducts himself on the touchline, is clearly an interesting, charismatic personality.