Quotes About Football

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

To be honest I wasn't very good at football. I loved cricket and when I started making some big scores for my boys' team, I dreamed of becoming the next Border.

I don't like to criticise referees because I believe it is a very complicated job, and what they do is very beneficial for football.

Criticism is normal in football.

The criticism that Arsene gets is just a joke.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.

It wouldn't be football unless you had critics. There are always going to be doubters and people that will question you as a player but you've just got to get through it.

Football without critics wouldn't be football.

For me, having played the game of football, I look at it through a much different lens. I don't look at it from a fan's perspective. I'm always trying to analyze and critique things when I'm watching sporting events. That's why I never have the sound on.

Of course it is very important for me to play for Croatia, however different it is to play at club level.

Fans in Brazil cross the line. A few times at Fluminense, the fans would go to the airport after we had played away to shout at us.

I wake up before the end of it. Honest. Cross my heart. That's how my football dreams always go.

For every striker, it's important to have some crosses. Sometimes they come, sometimes not.

When I started at Portsmouth in 1974 there was a strong National Front element in the crowd and they would abuse me even though I played for their team. Racist abuse was part of the game and it was never challenged.

The one team I would not like to play is Roma. I played there for so long and I admire the club and the crowd, so I don't want to play against them.

I will always remain a fan of Pescara. My time there was crucial to grow and improve as a player. It was my launchpad to top football.

Sure, Mourinho was obviously crucial for my move to Chelsea.

Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.

Football is cruel at times; it's difficult. When things go well, you're very good, and when they go badly, well, it's awful.

That is very important, to play with your feet, it is very important to know how to read the game and obviously save balls and also handle the pressure when it comes to the crunch time.

The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.

When I was a kid, the FA Cup was the one: it was bigger than the European Cup, even. So to win that, for me, and my dad as well - we used to watch it together - was brilliant.

If my ambition in Tottenham is only to win the Carabao Cup or FA Cup, with all the respect for that, I think my ambition does not match the ambition of a club like Tottenham.