Football Quotes

“The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.”

“You can't defend that, it's undefendable.”

“Injuries are the worst part of being a footballer.”

“You have to be able to run the football to be successful.”

“Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.”

“The ball is like a bloody magnet. It will come to you, you don't have to go looking for it.”

“He's got a lovely left foot, so I'll be looking for him to get down the wing and whip in some of those delicious far-post crosses with his right foot.”

“My goal was to make the other guy not want to play against me again.”

“Playing for Liverpool is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“The problem with Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in.”

“The keeper was certainly handicapped by having two hands.”

“As a defender, you're not supposed to be noticed. If you're noticed, it's because you've made a mistake.”

“I want to just let the four horsemen of the apocalypse loose.”

“When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average. So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you’re a good player or not.”

“We're going to hit you. We're going to hit you hard. And we're going to keep hitting you.”

“It's a game of emotion. It's a game of passion.”

“It's like a train, this qualifying campaign. We are on the right track, but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.”

“You have to be a little bit of a masochist to be a quarterback.”

“The crowd at Old Trafford were always great to me.”

“It's a six-pointer, even this early in the season.”