Football Quotes

“When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”

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

“The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.”

“You've got to want the ball, and when you get it, you've got to want to do something with it.”

“In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.”

“The pressure at a club like Manchester United is relentless.”

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

“Sometimes in football you have to score goals.”

“The first 90 minutes are the most important.”

“I've never seen a goal scored from the bench.”

“It's like a toaster, the ref's shirt. Every time there's a tackle, up pops a yellow card.”

“The pressure is always on. I mean, from the time you're a schoolboy, you want to be a professional footballer.”

“If you have two quarterbacks, you have none.”

“The pressure at a club like Real Madrid is immense. You are expected to win every single game.”

“He's a top, top player.”

“We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.”

“I would not say he [David Beckham] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.”

“Homophobia is the last taboo in football.”

“When I was a kid, the No. 9 shirt was the one you wanted. It was the one all the great goalscorers wore.”

“It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.”