Quotes About Soccer

I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.

Rivaldo was fundamental for me accepting the challenge in Bunyodkor.

I always admired Graeme Souness.

My agent said 'you've got clubs looking at you and United are one,' and I said: 'no they're not!'

Argentinian people are always a bit more aggressive!

Mourinho has taught me to be especially aggressive on the pitch, and now I'm going crazy trying to win every ball.

It's great playing alongside Xavi and Iniesta because you know that you're always going to get the ball cleanly from them.

The PSG project is very ambitious.

Every kid who plays football dreams of appearing in the Bundesliga one day.

I have an appreciation for Isco. I know him from when we were at Valencia together and I know that he has a lot of quality.

I always see Argentina with great players.

My first game for City was at Wembley against Arsenal and I have a bad memory about this game because we lost.

I'm so proud to play for a big club like Arsenal.

Arsenal are a massive club, and a club a lot of people would love to play for.

When I was approached by Arsenal in 2005, my world changed forever.

When I was a child, I was an Arsenal fan.

Arsenal have always been a dream of mine and I always thought one day I would go there.

When I went to the academy, we watched Arsenal because of Guillou's connection with Arsene.

I'm going to Arsenal to play.

I love Arsenal, it's the club of my heart.

It's not easy to break into an Arsenal team from youth.

I loved watching Arsenal, my son's an Arsenal fan.

Soccer, for the football fanatic, has nothing to do with the quality of the game. Their local team might only score goals from accidental deflections off the butt, but the fans will still pay over fifteen quid to watch those gaffs, simply because it's their team. In fact, technically, their love for their team has nothing to do with soccer, but everything to do with these huge, abstract values — fidelity, passion, love.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.