Footballer Quotes · Page 4

Behind the footballer, there is a human being.

— Dani Alves

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

— Barry Venison

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

— Gordon Strachan

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

— Kevin Keegan

A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

— Mario Gomez

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

— Franck Ribery

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

— H. L. Hunt

What a footballer wants above all else is to win, regardless of who the coach is.

— Pepe Reina

I played for West Ham juniors and thought I'd become a professional footballer.

— David Essex

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with…

— Riyad Mahrez

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to…

— Ruben Neves

My two years at Juve were fantastic. I was just a lad when I arrived, and I was a real footballer when…

— Alvaro Morata

We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices.…

— Ada Hegerberg

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

— Frank Skinner

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when…

— Gervinho

It's impossible to imagine doing anything else because I always had in my head that I would be a footballer.

— Lucas Moura

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to…

— Ryan Giggs

I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of…

— Pep Guardiola

I've always dreamt of being a footballer. You only get one shot at a career like this, and I want to be…

— James Milner

If you can have a career as a footballer for 13 years then you're really lucky, but there will probably be plenty…

— Graham Potter

I think that what I don't like is everything that surrounds a footballer. The fame, the people idolizing you, the press, not…

— Carlos Vela

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and…

— Xavi

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped…

— David Icke

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at…

— Oliver Kahn

Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much…

— John Terry

Every footballer wants to take part in a World Cup with his country.

— David Alaba

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

— Tommy Docherty

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

— Romelu Lukaku

Once the first gay footballer comes out, others will follow.

— Chris Sutton

I see my uncle as an idol, someone I have always looked up to as a footballer.

— Alex Iwobi

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time.

— Richard Møller Nielsen

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

— Michael Owen

To represent one's own country is one of the biggest achievements a footballer can get.

— N'Golo Kante

In my opinion, there is no better place to be for a footballer than Liverpool.

— Jordan Henderson

Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.

— Ronaldo

There's a big difference between being a footballer and being a coach.

— Marco van Basten

Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.

— Osvaldo Ardiles

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

— Jock Stein