Quotes About Rooney

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

Wayne Rooney has always made a great impression on me, even though I have only ever seen him on television.

I think, first and foremost, Wayne Rooney is a class player. Wherever he is on the pitch, he can make an impact.

Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.

I remember the European Championships in 2004. Wayne Rooney was a special player in that tournament, and I definitely cried when we got knocked out then.

People say that Rooney could have been like Lionel Messi, a more prolific goalscorer who dribbles past opponents more. But they are different characters. You will never see Messi snapping around the heels of an opponent to win the ball back deep in his own half. Wayne does that all the time, and sometimes that enthusiasm will count against him.

I am a massive fan of Wayne Rooney, and it is nice to see him play in any position because he gives a 100 per cent. Not many players can do that and say they do that.

As a kid, I looked up to Gazza, and to Wayne Rooney because he came through at Everton. Zidane has been one of my favourite players and I was always watching videos of him.

The treatment of Wayne Rooney told me something about the way England fans view the national team.

OK, Wayne Rooney is always the center of attention, and I always have to answer questions about him. But Wayne is Wayne, and he will always contribute in a game.

Wayne Rooney would have been great to play with. He is one of the best strikers in the world and this is also a guy who has scored against me every time I've played him.

courtliness being the gear that his engine idled in.

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

And the girl who was there with them, Kaylie Rooney, she'd just gotten out of juvenile detention for arson. It was easier to deflect blame toward her than to try to pin it on nature.

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write them. And if people want to read them, that's great.

I like musicals and I love music.

I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I would think, 'Oh well, I have to write something now that really represents my generation or that really represents young Irish people.'

I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.