Quotes About Football

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

My pops played for the Packers for five years.

India has a population of over 1 billion people. There is place for all sports and for sure there is space for football.

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.

Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.

I want to finish in Portugal, in Benfica.

I've been fortunate to play with many great players, including Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

Portugal have a mix of players and talent, which is what Portuguese players and coaches are often about. It's like play-ground football.

I am like all Portuguese people in that I admire Mourinho a lot.

I looked at Manchester with more interest when Cristiano was here because it's normal when you have Portuguese players in some teams, you look at them more than other teams.

I am 33 years of age. I have 500 or 600 appearances. I know what I have done in football. I know how hard I have to work to be in this position.

I'm not a left midfielder. I hate that position, I don't like it.

Marco Silva is always talking to me in training; he is always giving me guidance on positioning in the area. His coaching is essential for me. He is training me with an eye to being in the right place at the right time when balls come into the box so I am able to score more goals.

I'd like to think I can put myself in positions where I can get the odd half-chance to score, that's what I was best known for and I like to think if the chances came along I'd be able to stick them in the back of the net.

That was always something I remember, playing in loads of different positions when I was younger, and learning about what it takes to play a right-wing role, or holding midfield, or as a striker. I had a lot of experiences in those different formations and positions.

I can play in a number of positions, on the left, as a No 10, or off the right.

I did learn a lot of things in different positions, wing-back, winger and striker as well so I am happy to go and learn different positions which I like and I trust the process of Nuno Espirito Santo.

I am actually comfortable in every position in midfield. At Bayern Munich, I even played as a winger and sometimes a full-back, so I can play many different positions.

I just want to be playing! I love to play. But I think I can play in the three positions behind the striker.

I can play in different positions, and if I can do what I'm good at, score goals, show how good I can play football, then it's OK with me.