Quotes About England

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.

The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was about the postman walking up the garden whistling my song. I wasn't trying to conquer the world.

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

My private life was not very private in England.

It's an incredible privilege to be the England manager, but when you sit and think about the people who have got to this point before, people I hugely respect and admire... it's difficult to put it into perspective, really.

It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.

I am not only privileged to work for the FA and England: I have enjoyed working for the FA and England.

It's a dream come true to make my debut for England. It's something I always wanted to do as a young boy, and I'm sure there's thousands and thousands of kids who dream and wake up every morning thinking that's what they want to be. I feel very proud and very privileged.

I'm in such a privileged position to class football as my full-time job, to be captain of England, captain of Manchester City. I'm very lucky.

I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.

There is a law against discrimination in England. But there is a different law for the royal family.

England have good fast bowlers who can exploit their home conditions.

England has some very good cricketers. And don't rule West Indies out. They have some explosive players.

It is a proud moment to lead England out any time you do and on a world stage it gives it an extra oomph as well but it will be down there with the biggest lows if we don't win.

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

There is a wealth of fabulous actresses in England.

In England, if you don't have good facilities, you can't be in the Super League, and that is very important.