--- title: "1 Ball Good Quotes By Paul Merson" description: "1 Ball Good quotes by Paul Merson. Plus more from Paul Merson and more Ball Good sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/paul-merson-9263_ball_there-is-one-thing-that-will-never-chang_1474968.png" --- > [There is one thing that will never change in football. The centre forward is only as good as the people that are giving him the ball, and the people that are giving him the ball are only as good as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/there-is-one-thing-that-will-never-change-in-football-the-centre/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/paul-merson-9263_ball_there-is-one-thing-that-will-never-chang_1474968.png) ## More by Paul Merson > [Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/don-t-put-too-much-pressure-on-jack-wilshere-in-years-to-come-i-think/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/when-everton-knock-it-long-they-don-t-knock-it-long/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [ The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We \[Arsenal\] played against Milan in the European Supercup \[in 1995\]. Maldini marked me… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/the-best-player-i-ever-played-against-was-paolo-maldini-we-arsenal/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/if-you-keep-walking-past-the-barbers-eventually-you-ll-get-a-haircut/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/you-don-t-want-to-bite-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Never worry about what people think. That's what drove me to drinking a lot of time, worrying about what people thought of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/never-worry-about-what-people-think-that-s-what-drove-me-to-drinking/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you're earning twenty-five pounds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/when-you-see-your-friends-going-out-every-friday-night-and-earning/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/football-s-all-about-yesterday-it-s-all-about-now/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/david-nugent-tore-up-the-championship-but-he-s-gone-to-portsmouth-and/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/if-you-re-chopping-and-changing-the-team-you-don-t-get-that-word-i/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/every-single-player-on-the-pitch-is-now-in-the-birmingham-box-apart/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [But I was just a normal person really. You see, I didn't get it in my head that I was just a professional footballer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/but-i-was-just-a-normal-person-really-you-see-i-didn-t-get-it-in-my/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [Reading won't have the confidence to be confident](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/reading-won-t-have-the-confidence-to-be-confident/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [I went to AA, which was a major help for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/i-went-to-aa-which-was-a-major-help-for-me/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) > [We grew up in an age of playing reserve team football at the stadium. If the first team were playing away, you'd be playing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-merson/we-grew-up-in-an-age-of-playing-reserve-team-football-at-the-stadium/) [Paul Merson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-merson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ball-good/paul-merson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ball Good Quotes By Paul Merson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is one thing that will never change in football. 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