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Quotes About England

I think playing international football burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so never felt that.
~ Gareth Barry
England's is a very solid squad, but I can't name a particular player; a team is all the players, and they're good.
~ Gabriel Batistuta
The most important thing for me is being part of a successful England squad and being as big a part of it as I can.
~ Jack Butland
I've played against a lot of the guys who have got into the England squad - Scott Parker, Jimmy Bullard, people like that - and I feel like I'm holding my own.
~ Lee Cattermole
With only 30% of players in Premier League squads qualified to play for England, the accent on developing home-grown talent is heavier than ever.
~ Robbie Savage
A lot of greats from England have fought in New York. I remember when Naseem Hamed fought at Madison Square Garden against Kevin Kelley and knocked him out.
~ James DeGale
I really want to make Charlton a stable side in the Premier League but I'd be lying if I said England wasn't in the back of my mind.
~ Scott Parker
I will choose England before any other destination. My dream has always been to play in one of the top two leagues in the world. Newcastle is a good club, and St James's Park is a monumental stadium where there is passionate fans.
~ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Playing for England, it's a massive honour to wear the shirt anyway, but to come and play at Wembley Stadium, in terms of how women's football has developed, it's a massive opportunity.
~ Steph Houghton
The Premier League is one of the best in the world, without a doubt. The stadiums are always full, and the atmosphere is incredible, but not every footballer is able to play in England. The character can be difficult for a foreigner.
~ Robinho
If we in Spain had fans like in England, it would be the best League without doubt. And the live football, in the stadiums, the people live for it.
~ Gerard Deulofeu
It would be great to play in England. The atmosphere in the stadiums is incredible.
~ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in England. According to her, he never had the courage to actually pursue it full-time. I think that my grandfather's parents thought that it wasn't a formidable job to have.
~ Jovan Adepo
I'm not one to bow under immense pressure. I know how to deal with it. As a youth player growing up and playing for England, you deal with it then and get used to it. You just carry on into the bigger stages, and it has become natural to me.
~ Ruben Loftus-Cheek
To be in the England squad, you have got to be playing well and your standards have got to be up there.
~ Jack Butland
I've been to Wembley a couple of times to see England, but the match which stands out for me is the 2008 Carling Cup final against Chelsea. I was there as a fan with the family. That was a great day out.
~ Harry Kane
I have noticed that, for fans in England, the Premier League stands above the rest.
~ Ilkay Gundogan
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
~ A. P. Herbert
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
~ Oscar Wilde
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
~ George Bancroft
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
~ John Lothrop Motley
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
~ Charles Kingsley
Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!
~ Terri Windling
Scotland resented the foreign domination of England.
~ Theo Aronson