Quotes About Football

There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.

Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.

I like to tell people that 'Ballers' has something for everyone. If you are a football fan, then obviously, 'Ballers' is the way to go. The series are using real team names so that's a plus. If you have no interest in football, it's still a show about life, and there's something for everybody on that show.

How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.

In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.

Daniel Jones is a guy who has some escapability, can get outside the pocket.

In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.

When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.

The pistol isn't going to go away, but the job in the long run is going to be to deliver the ball from the pocket.

I'm a natural pocket passer.

I can maneuver if I need to but I'm deadly in the pocket.

I've played at Anfield and you can look at The Kop and there are blue pockets all over. It's another level in Glasgow.

Different parts of Ireland have different alliances, because you have little pockets where counties are good at hurling, and different counties are good at football.

Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.

In Naples, I was very lucky to find my players adapted to my way of football. They were strong as players and strong from a human point of view.

From a footballer's point of view, if you want to choose a football club, then Arsenal is right up there with the best.

People tell me I'm the first in dribbling. But it's important that, after dribbling, I cross or pass or score. If I don't, then dribbling is pointless.

My job is to protect the football and score points and lead this offense on drives to score points.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

It was great that Cruyff believed in me so much when I was taken on at Ajax. As a coach, Cruyff also had a clear vision, which enabled him to create a better team.

I really enjoyed my time in Cleveland.

I just wish things would've gone differently in Cleveland. I hope they have success in the future. I hope coach Holmgren can get things turned around for them.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

You don't have to be too clever to know that if Barcelona loaned me to another team, it's because they have little interest in me.