Quotes About Football

Service football is extremely respectable and very competitive. They've won some big games.

I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.

I've known Mesut for a long time now. I love to play with him, and I think he loves to play with me. We complement each other quite well.

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

It is complicated, but I've always said that I would have liked to retire at Barca.

It's hard to comprehend beating Barcelona 8-2.

To go and watch Manchester United, whether it's home or away, is entertainment; it's goals - whether you concede goals or whether you can score goals.

The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.

United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede chances.

Tottenham have always played fantastic football. I remember watching them many years ago when I was younger, and they'd concede three but they'd score four.

I was out on loan at Barnsley when United accepted an offer for me from Leicester and that was it really. I just had to concentrate on my new club.

I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.

My wish is to concentrate on playing football for Manchester City.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I used to watch English football on TV when I was younger in Brazil. I already knew it was a dynamic, competitive and fast way of playing. When I got here, I just confirmed all of that.

Usually, if you're going to be a manager, you always want to talk about football and be a connoisseur of the game.

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Messi is the greatest, but he has always been surrounded by other great players.

I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.

I think the Premier League suits my game, but it also depends on who I have next to me because I need to be surrounded by players with certain characteristics.

In Willesden I was surrounded by quite a few footballers, but a lot of them have fallen off, and that's not something I wanted to do.