Footballer Quotes

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.

I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

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

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team - spirit. That's the right attitude; that will bring you pleasure and fulfillment in football. A baker cannot live on bread he made yesterday, and a footballer cannot live on his last game. It's about the here and now.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

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

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.