Quotes About Football

Winning the FA Cup with Manchester United was my biggest achievement.

I think Manchester United is a much bigger club than any manager in the world, and the manager who comes in should respect what Manchester United is.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

It is always special to play Manchester United.

I was a Manchester United fan.

When it came to Sociedad, I didn't want to come back into football so soon after the Manchester United experience.

When a team like Manchester United comes to Molineux it is always big.

I had a fantastic career at Manchester United.

I respect Manchester United, but I have respect to Dortmund as well.

I remember playing against the great Manchester United teams when I was a player.

I have played in Dortmund and Manchester United, no matter what country I go to, I will not be afraid.

For me it was massive there was interest from Manchester United. To sign for such a club was important to me in my football career.

I knew that PSV had given me my chance, but Manchester United is obviously a great club.

I want to make it at Manchester United.

For me, ever since I was a kid, it was a dream playing for Manchester United.

My vision of coming to Manchester United is that I'm at one of the best clubs in the world, for me, the best club in England.

I will need to very well for Manchester United to keep coming back to the Selecao.

With myself, Mario Balotelli, Robinho, Alessandro Matri, Giampaolo Pazzini, and now Kaka, we will be too strong.

To mark Pirlo was not easy.

I've loved every minute playing for Arsenal, and I hope I have left my mark on the club and fans alike.

Arsenal are the team that have left the biggest mark on me, without a doubt.

We're both big guys and probably have the same speed; I hope to be as successful as Brandon Marshall.

The high school I attended was named the Cathedral Preparatory School for Young Catholic Boys. It was a prep school, preparing us for one of two futures: either playing football or spending our lives getting sucker-punched by those who did play football.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.