Quotes About Football

I think time of possession is overrated, unless you are scoring.

The number one thing is to catch the football and maintain possession.

We know it's impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.

For anyone who wants to tell me time of possession doesn't matter, you're a moron. It matters.

If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.

Maybe I will end my career here in Milan, but there is a possibility of going back to Brazil.

My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.

There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn't go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.

I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: 'I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.'

My brother and I had Henrik Larsson posters everywhere.

Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.

Jurgen Klopp was very astute in seeing Keita's ability and potential to develop.

If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.

I would have to consider the U.S.A. job if I was approached because it's one of the big nations in world football, with massive growth potential.

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

When I carry the ball, I don't just take a direct hit. I get out of bounds when I can, get to the ground, try to avoid taking a pounding on my shoulders and legs. If I do that, I think I'll be fine.

It would be fun if I were 40 pounds heavier and a little bit faster to get in and play some linebacker.

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

I'm not a big man and never was. I came in at about 243 pounds and I played at times up to 260 so there was nothing I could have done to match the size of the defensive tackles.

Any organization that gives me a chance will get me. And I'll pour my heart into the organization and do whatever it takes to win football games.

My game is not to have one great action. My game is to be consistent throughout: to bring the ball in the best and quickest possible way for the best players to make the last action.

Admittedly, there will be an awful lot for me to learn, but I want nothing more than to help bring consistent, championship caliber football back to Cleveland.