Quotes About Football

Every player has a dream to play at Barcelona for a long time, but you have different roles for the team.

We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

I beat Angelo Mosca, one of the great football players - nobody beat him - I beat him at Maple Leaf Gardens. I became champion and I cannot forget Maple Leaf Gardens.

One of my favourite players is, of course, Marcus Rashford.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

I want the best players to be linked with Liverpool and coming to Liverpool.

No, I don't think I'm especially one of the best players in the league.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

To have the opportunity to play for the best club in the world gives you the opportunity to play against the best players in the world.

I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.

I think it's a good match, Dutch players playing in England.

Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.

I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

I've been hanging out with some really good football players and having a few more opportunities to have the ball in my hands, and I think it really just comes down to those things.

Ask me about my football, and not too much else. I just want to be a player among the players.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

When you walk in the door at Green Bay and see the murals of all the football players you knew as a fan, it can get to you. I grew up being Bart Starr and Paul Hornung on the playground.