Quotes About Football

I've seen other people grow up and not have respect for human beings. But even though I play football, I'm still able to talk to everyone on the estate. Whenever I go, I can literally talk to anyone that I meet and everyone I have known from my past.

I just play football. You understand what you are getting into. They're always trying to improve it, make it better and safer and more efficient. It is what it is.

I'd rather not play football at all than have to change my style.

I admire Romario a lot, he was my idol together with Ronaldo, but I do not have anything to prove to anyone. What I have to do is play football.

It's football. You play football. You just play injured. That's how it is. A lot of it comes from my dad. He played for Hayden Fry University in the '80s. He used to tell me about the injuries he played with. One time he tore his ACL in Week 6 and then played in the Rose Bowl in Week 12. So, if he could do that, I can do anything.

I get on the field, I feel like it's an opportunity to show that I can play football and I'm good at my job and I deserve to keep my job.

I needed to play football, and if that was for Barca then great, but all I wanted was to play.

If you play football and you're comfortable with losing, you shouldn't be playing football.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

Football-wise, I help with my 12-year-old and his team, and I play football on a Friday with my mates and that's about it. I always look out for results at Rovers and Southampton mainly, and I go and watch Liverpool when I can.

I've always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year out because I wanted to play with my mates and get that competitiveness back. I got that fighting spirit and I never want to lose that.

I don't really think about things too much, but people are going to form impressions about you if you play football, aren't they? And if they think you're the funny guy or the boy that likes a laugh, well that ain't so bad.

I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the mental side of things and having 40,000 fans saying you're not a good player or you don't belong.

You just manage. It's all about balance. You have to play football and be professional. You come home and you have family life.

I'm going to play football, that's what I do.

I've always liked the way Southampton play football, high intensity and really aggressive playing. The way they play with the full-backs I'm not going to be sitting back for the whole game, it is going to give me opportunities to get forward and show what I can give in attack.

It is not my intention to break up teams at local grassroots clubs - but to make sure every kid gets an opportunity to play football for free.

I played over 130 matches, including four finals, so there have been many great moments.

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.

I played college football for free. I had to pay to play, really.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.