Quotes About Footballers

I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

The elite footballers of one country meet at the national team and it's an honour for me to be among them.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Everybody knows that footballers have text groups on WhatsApp. I have one just for my friends from home, and I have another just for my Barca team-mates.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

As footballers we are in a really privileged position so it's good to give back to the community.

My dad produces good footballers.

By training with some of the world's finest footballers and manager, I feel I have matured in all areas - mentally, physically, and technically.

I think obviously the media need to help promote the game and make it bigger so the younger girls have women role models to look up to and try and aspire to instead of just male footballers.

I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Things have evolved, and footballers pay a lot more attention to how they dress and how they groom themselves because of social media. So they'll be on Instagram or Twitter, and I think it's one of those things - you're in the public eye more, probably, than playing football on television, and your lifestyle at home is broadcast.

I have many footballer friends including I M Vijayan.

We footballers don't address one another as 'My dear.'

I don't know if my perspective is different because my dad played but I've always admired footballers: second division players, second division B players.

When we have a ball at our feet, we footballers are delighted, but what happens behind the scenes is not always all that pretty.

You have good footballers coming out of Africa, West Africa, but they are not on the level that Eto'o played.

I was a fan once, and I remember what it was like approaching footballers for their autographs. I used to get starstruck a lot of the time.

Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

It is true that footballers are mistrustful.

It's the life of the manager: when you make a decision, and the team doesn't win, the pressure comes. But that's part of the life of a manager and footballers as well.

These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.