Quotes About Football

Harry Kane, for example, is a really physical striker but also really skilful. He surprises lot of defenders, but he won't surprise me.

There are always surprises in the Champions League.

Drogba is certainly one of the best strikers in the world and has gone to Galatasaray after his experience in China, with the desire to keep surprising.

Pretty surreal experience to see the impact football has had globally.

To hear that Manchester United were interested was surreal for me because it was my first year in senior football.

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

You valorize intelligence because that's your most valued personal characteristic, just like the model feels about her beauty and the football player about his talent for using his body weight to mow down other human bodies.

Ah, the rheumy-eyed grandpa on the terraces inducting the lad into the mysteries of soccer: how to loathe people wearing different coloured shirts, how to feign injury, how to blow your snot onto the pitch—See, son, you press hard on one nostril to close it, and explode the green stuff out of the other. How to be vain and overpaid and have your best years behind you before you've even understood what life's about. Oh yes, I look forward to taking Lucas to the football. But

She'd just rear-ended a cop car and she said that only the week before she'd been arrested shoplifting tortillas and salsa for a Sunday afternoon football party at her house. 'This is so not good,' she told me. 'Honestly, I have the worst luck.

Claire picked up the picture. They were at a football game. Paul's jacket was wrapped around her shoulders. She could recall thinking how warm it felt, how reassuring. The camera had captured her laughing, mouth open, head tilted back. Ecstatically, irrevocably happy.

Georgia had beaten Auburn last night. The town was sleeping off the win.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United

The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!