Footballers Quotes · Page 4

I think the stereotype about footballers being badly dressed is unfair.

— Daniel Sturridge

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

— Alan Shearer

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

— Gary Lineker

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

— Joleon Lescott

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

— Ada Hegerberg

But 30 is a turning point in most footballers' lives - because your market value starts to fall.

— Robbie Savage

I do enjoy seeing footballers every day, being on the training ground.

— Harry Redknapp

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

— Gordon Taylor

Do I like most footballers? Not really. Joe Hart, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Joleon Lescott, Gabby Agbonlahor and a group of the guys at…

— Micah Richards

People think that football is all glamour and money but trust me all footballers go through the same boring and annoying things…

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on…

— Louise Nurding

Maybe I don't take certain things for granted as much as some footballers because I remember what it was like to train…

— Ashley Barnes

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne…

— Gary Lineker

There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players…

— Pep Guardiola

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

— Raquel Welch

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like;…

— Chris Coleman

I think people don't really understand how much footballers are affected by the people in their lives. When we're interviewed, people always…

— Ivan Rakitic

When you're out there together on the pitch, you're fighting for each other. It's amazing, overwhelming and you either sink or swim…

— Jermaine Jenas

Everyone thinks footballers have it easy and at this time of year see loads of pictures of players relaxing on beaches and…

— Colin Kazim-Richards

Life coaching, the mental and physical well-being of footballers, is going to be really important. I don't mean necessarily in a deep…

— Sean Dyche

We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes…

— Otto Rehhagel

I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies…

— Ian Holloway

Don't get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things…

— Mark Noble

We're professional footballers and we just have to be prepared for anything that could happen.

— Rui Patricio

I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.

— Sol Campbell

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

— Fernando Torres

I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

— Diego Simeone

Contrary to what some people might think, most footballers don't know much about their team-mates' transfers.

— David James

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

— Jordan Henderson

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

— Frank Skinner

When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.

— Alexandre Pato

Everyone likes to be praised for their work and footballers are no different but the key thing is staying level-headed.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

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

— Gordon Strachan

Sometimes it's better for footballers to be occupied by something else.

— Rodri

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

— Richard Møller Nielsen

Nigerian footballers who have played in Russia improved their ability here.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout.

— Micah Richards

Footballers have been groaning about media pundits for as long as I can remember.

— David James

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

— Anonymous