Quotes About Soccer

I broke Steve McMahon's nose twice in one night.

I even used to play as Liverpool on the PlayStation on 'FIFA' when I was 18 or 19, as Steven Gerrard, Sami Hyypia, Jamie Carragher, Michael Owen, and Xabi Alonso.

Steven Gerrard - at his peak, he was outstanding both attacking and defensively.

Now in the U.S.A., a lot of great players come after their careers in Europe, like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Andrea Pirlo, great players.

My big thing is we need to change how people feel about goalkeeping. I don't think there is enough respect for the position in the game, whether male or female. There is a stigma that you have to be a certain size or not very good with your feet, or you have had to go in goal as a last resort.

I have to cause a stir in Liverpool and do my job really well. If I achieve that, then - and that's what I hope - I will one day get the call from Bundestrainer Joachim Low.

Italian football is a laughing stock.

Adama Traore and Diogo Jota are incredibly fast and difficult to stop.

Harry Kane is a very complicated player to stop.

I used to dream about taking the ball 'round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

There is no magic formula for stopping Messi.

Thinking of stopping Kane one-on-one, just me, is not going to happen.

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

There was one player who was better than Pele. It was Garrincha. He had one leg crooked, the other one straight, normal. How did he do all those things with such difficulties? He was a paralytic! And the way he played! Much better than us all!

When I was 18, I moved across the ocean just for the opportunity to play for a club that played against Barcelona. So to have the honour of playing for Barca? It was incredible.

At West Ham, I was the last person to be offered a scholarship. I remember an Under 18 match against Fulham. I was 16 and had to prove myself. Everyone else already had their scholarship. It was probably one of my best games. Knowing that every day I'd have to fight has made me into the person I am today.

Sometimes as a No. 8 you are making decoy runs, or you are offering and you don't get the ball.

I would like to change the refereeing system. The pressure that is put on an official in a match is too large.

Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.

Cafu was a leader on and off the pitch and it was he who invented the concept of right-backs running from corner to corner.

One day, I hope I can play in MLS.

I think Sadio Mane is lucky the way Liverpool play. His job is pretty much to stay on one half of the field. Yes, he does come back and help out defensively every now and again, but generally he's told to stay in the attacking half of the field and go at defenders.

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.

Ernesto gritted his teeth. New Yorkers, he wagered. They want what they want. The only reason their Red Bulls soccer team was having any success on the world stage was that they'd pilfered one of Europe's best coaches.