Quotes About Career

I was determined to become a footballer, not only because I loved the game but so I could provide for my family.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

I have always said you only get one shot in life as a footballer.

I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'

Of course I want to keep playing; that's the best thing for any footballer. But I'm looking forward to not having to put my body through the pain, I have to say.

It's tough. That's the side people don't see. You have to balance it, get it right, and be a dad as well as a footballer. That is part of the job. Around this time of year, it's so important.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

It is a fact for any footballer - you can be really happy, but if the club don't want you, you have to accept it.

It's impossible to imagine doing anything else because I always had in my head that I would be a footballer.

I was a footballer for a long, long time.

My time in England is where I have felt truly like a footballer, and I have put my name among the best players. I'm very proud to have played almost 400 games with Liverpool.

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.

I'm a professional footballer, and I get paid for doing my job.

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

I had a very interesting and exciting life as a footballer, for which I am grateful.

The problem I had with Raheem Sterling when he left Liverpool was not the fact that he was leaving Liverpool. Any professional footballer wants to go to where they think they're going to win things, where the money is and everything else and that was Manchester City.

I will not lie, people know I'm a footballer and I had to seize the moment with Zenit's financial offer.

We are getting to the point where, like the men's game, playing football is not only a legitimate career but enables you to live really well and can perhaps even set you up for life. It will allow little girls to tell their mums and dads they want to be professional footballers and not have their dreams dismissed so easily.

If there is something I would go back and change it would have been to have lined up some other interest outside to go into after football. That's one bit of advice I give to young professional footballers, to set that up.

Andaaz' gave me a firm footing in the industry. I would not be honest if I said I knew it would do well.

Being a cop must be hard. My dad was one and never wanted any of his children to follow in his footsteps.