Quotes About Footballers

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time.

I don't think where they live is important to footballers.

Fans have to try to control their emotions, as we do as footballers.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

I know there are footballers who want to fight for justice, whether Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, any belief.

As footballers we have a certain responsibility. We have the responsibility to talk about things.

There is such a strange microculture to footballers' fashion and style and the design that goes around it.

There are a lot of distractions in London, which is the downside to things, for a lot of young footballers as well, and my aim is to beat that. I don't want to get distracted by anything, my aim is to concentrate on football and do the best I can.

Learning from the best is easy and it isn't just footballers, coaches should also learn.

Footballers are always subject to criticism, but the world knows how good a player Neymar is and knows about the quality in his game.

As a cricketer you can go under the radar. It's not like we're footballers who get papped everywhere. I can go down to the corner shop without getting hassled.

In my years at United, I witnessed some signings who, over their careers, transformed the fortunes of the team. From Eric Cantona, when I was an apprentice, to Dwight Yorke, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Wayne Rooney. These were great footballers who became great United players.

The make-up on 'Footballers' Wives' is unbelievable - there's loads of fake tan.

What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

I was fortunate to play with so many wonderful footballers and under the greatest manager of all time, but I do believe that a club's ethos, the principles of how it plays, should outlive even the biggest individuals in its history.

If Im out and Im around loads of very high-profile footballers, fans always come up to me. I think they just feel comfortable coming over.

The pitch is a footballers workplace. Fans have no more right to be on it during a game than a burglar has being in your house.

This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.

Soldiers, like footballers, are famously resistant to new foods.

You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.

Life coaching, the mental and physical well-being of footballers, is going to be really important. I don't mean necessarily in a deep psychological way. But they're surrounded by a lot of people. Important people, seemingly. Not always. But important in their worlds. They're mini companies.