Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I…

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

— Chris Borland

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Football is like recreation for me. I'd sooner be playing five-a-side than going out to eat or shopping.

— Lukas Podolski

I am lucky to play football, I like to play all kinds of sports, exactly because of that, because it is very important to…

— Nacho

I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of…

— Claudio Ranieri

That's football. It's like in any walk of life: you get some people who are going to try more than others.

— Robert Green

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

— Rinus Michels

I play football; I do what I like.

— Paul Pogba

Iniesta is my ideal player. I've watched him throughout my career and hoped to be like him. It's fun to watch him play and…

— Shinji Kagawa

I like English football, Spanish football, Italian football. I like all of them.

— Hulk

My father said, 'You're not going to make it.' That took a lot of pressure from me. I took football like a hobby.

— Per Mertesacker

Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

— Condoleezza Rice

Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it's not just any second, it's a flash. The prey is there and…

— Diego Simeone

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has…

— Ed Reed

Bayern play the kind of football I like to play, and have already had a lot of success.

— Kingsley Coman