Football Quotes · Page 780

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

— Riyad Mahrez

I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.

— Antonio Conte

I just want to assist and score goals to help the team.

— Jesse Lingard

I want just to show people good things - football is beautiful when you play games like that.

— David Luiz

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter.

— Steven Gerrard

“Self-enrichment is that act of creating a thousand micro wins, so you can have one macro win.”

— Lisa Nichols

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

— Magnus Carlsen

If everybody's a winner, nobody has to try very hard.

— Paul Dini

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already…

— Johan Cruijff

Sometimes if the manager does not see if a player is down, Fernandinho will go and see if they're OK. He's the…

— Phil Foden

You can see that mistakes in the Bundesliga are punished harshly and that we can have problems against every opponent if we…

— Joshua Kimmich

I'm a guy that always had to prove himself on every level I've played, always was the guy that was overlooked.

— Terry Rozier

All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football…

— Aaron Donald

I know how much football is loved in Turkey. I will make the Galatasaray fans very proud and very happy.

— Wesley Sneijder

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people…

— Bernie Ecclestone

They're human beings before they're footballers and it's important to understand how can I help them. What do they need? How can…

— Graham Potter

The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who…

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on…

— Summer Sanders

I took the job at United fully expecting to be walking around after the last home game of the season either challenging…

— Phil Neville

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal…

— Jeffrey Kluger

What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys…

— Mike Shanahan

All players rolled into one: from defensive midfielder to attacking midfielder to attacker. I want to take the qualities from everyone. I'd…

— Paul Pogba

Culture, and the way guys fight, and the way guys go to prepare and the way guys go about their business is…

— Jason Kelce

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

— Gareth Barry

Bottom line, to win football games, we've got to get Mike Evans the ball.

— Jameis Winston

Football is a beautiful game, we have to respect that and let everything run normally.

— Victor Wanyama

I'm massively passionate about playing for my country.

— Jack Butland

You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.

— Orrin Woodward

We have to improve on a weekly basis, on a game-to-game basis.

— Andre Villas-Boas

I've got this mindset now that I'm going to finish the play no matter where the defender's at.

— Ja Morant

Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.

— Mark Hateley

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

— Mitch Caplan

I've learned so much at PSV, not only on the pitch but also as a person.

— Memphis Depay

You don't find a lot of coaches who cares more about you as a person than the results.

— Ricky Rubio

What a manager should be doing is telling his players what to do to make things better.

— Paul Mullin

Bayern Munich will neither make excuses nor apologise for our good work.

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

I don't play this game to be an average tight end.

— Zach Ertz

I mean, at the end of the day, I just want to win.

— Christian McCaffrey

Life is a game there are players and there are cheaters

— Anonymous