Football Clubs Quotes

I found the support inside Old Trafford has been terrific and, if there was ever a show of support for the football club and team, it was in this game. Inside Old Trafford it was terrific, it really was.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Liverpool was made for me and I was made for Liverpool.

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

For me, my entry point, when I was old enough, was the skinhead/suedehead thing, sort of like '70/'71. People didn't have much money - they would save up, or whatever - but everyone always dressed up. You'd go to a dance at the football club on a Thursday night and all of us kids - all of us from maybe like 12 to 16 - were all dressed up.

I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.

That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.

I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.

At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.

Arsenal will always have a place in my heart and that is the same for so many other people too. There's a strong sense of 'family' at the Club and it is why those people that leave so often find their way back, to be around that feeling and I believe that even when you go a bit of you never leaves Arsenal anyway, that is how it has been for me. I'm just so glad that I've been able to be part of the story of the football club.

We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.  (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted.

It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.