Football Quotes · Page 964

I am a national player myself and I know how special it is to play for Germany.

— Joshua Kimmich

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

— George Steinbrenner

For me, I've been a part of a super-team in Team Alpha Male for so much of my career.

— Joseph Benavidez

Chelsea are playing with much more refreshing ness

— Glenn Hoddle

If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.

— Roberto Carlos

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

— Josh Howard

I feel like if they put the ball in the air, it's my ball. It's either a PI or it's my ball.

— DeAndre Hopkins

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

— Barry Sanders

I think players look around and they look at the teams that they'd like to join and it's usually teams that already…

— Tom Thibodeau

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.

— Simon Sinek

It does not bother me that £60m has been paid for me. I come here to work and play for the club…

— Angel Di Maria

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

— Carlos Queiroz

I want to prove myself at Chelsea and be successful in the Premiership and the Champions League.

— Michael Ballack

There were a lot of clubs interested in me - a lot, really. But Manchester United appeared and didn't go away. They…

— Angel Di Maria

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the…

— Didier Deschamps

It's frustrating how you keep picking and choosing... It feels like I am in a race to be your friend and I…

— Anonymous

I think you could say that, a lot of players are insecure and sometimes we have this shield around us that we…

— Marc Gasol

It's hard to pick one, but I would say the game when I really realized I was in the NFL was my…

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a…

— John McCain

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the…

— Tim Tebow

The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it…

— Javier Mascherano

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that…

— Lena Horne

Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give…

— Paul Rankin

Football, if I can say, is an everlasting new beginning. You always question yourself, but you have to be ready not just…

— Olivier Giroud

You want our team to have the best chance to win.

— Philip Rivers

With a coach like Mourinho, it's probably easier for a club to get top stars.

— Michael Ballack

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

— Don Simpson

High school: when the football season is over, school spirit dies a little.

— Anonymous

Tom Brady should be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and that heartbeat should be mine.

— Vermin Supreme

You can't build teams with drastic changes or a drastic swing of players.

— Scott Parker

Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.

— Harry Maguire

The Bernabeu is a mad place, but Man City are also a mad team.

— Ruben Dias

I never want to leave United but I want to play as well.

— Andreas Pereira

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

— Fred Rogers

I like to think of myself as a very winning player.

— Larry Nance, Jr

I don't think Mourinho wants to have friends, or maybe that's just the way he likes to appear.

— Roberto Mancini

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.

— Gary Newbon

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

— Zinedine Zidane

Players have each other's backs in this league because it's a business at the end of the day.

— Nick Bosa

I went to West Ham in order to play against Arsenal as often as possible.

— Freddie Ljungberg