Quotes About England

Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.

England is the biggest league in the world. Of course, you have Barcelona and Real Madrid but, as a league, England is in my opinion the best in the world.

I got booed by my own fans when I came on in my first game for England. You go through things that are ridiculous. But you get to the stage you realise everyone's got an opinion.

If we are gong to be an outstanding team, we need players who are going to step up in the big moments and realise, every time they play for England, they have the chance to be involved in an iconic moment, a historic performance, and that they have that choice every time they go on the field.

After time away it always makes you realise how special it is to play for England and what an honour it is.

I love the U.K., and I think a lot of people don't realise that I actually went to primary school in England.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

I have been playing for England since I was 18, and while I wouldn't say I took it all for granted, it just seemed to be a part of my season - to play for Arsenal and to play for England.

England is of course a great country to play in, and I'll always be open for a return. But it has to be a club I feel good about.

There's been a few great moments, I don't hate my career in England.

Wenger is a great manager, a great person, someone who knows the league here in England.

The main reason to come to England and Chelsea was to play with a great team. Money and the chance to live in a city like London are additional factors.

In England there's a lot of money to create a great team like Barcelona.

There are moments when I miss England because it was a great time. But it's nice to be back home and working for Schalke, one of the biggest clubs in Germany.

There's much more activity in England than in Greece. Or at least there's a lot more development, which obviously brings another set of problems.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years.

Although men doubtless continued to punch each other for fun and bragging rights, the sport as such didn't formally resurface until the late seventeenth century, in Great Britain.

I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.