Football Quotes
I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern.
Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.
Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.
I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.
Football is all about winning things as a team but it's also important to pick up individual awards along the way.
Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.
