Football Quotes
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I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.
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I gotta follow my heart. It ain't football. If football made me complete, I would play. But whenever I think of it, my heart pulls me away from whatever reason... This means I'm done.
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People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?
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Paul might be the most famous Kentuckian as far as football, ... I've known Billy for years, so I asked him since he was coming if he would like to see if Paul would like to come. He's a real institution.
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You can't control some things in football, but you can control how we view things and how we work.
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Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.
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Football is a game. It's something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.
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Football is a game. So you need to enjoy your football.
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I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
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I don’t know why, but football is my passion.
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We are football players and we like to win games.
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I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.
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If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
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The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
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We've seen some players dying from playing football, and the questions are why can't the medical team stop it from happening.
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Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
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It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?
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Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?
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I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best.
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The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.
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Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.
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I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
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I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.
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I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.
