Footballer Quotes · Page 3

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.

— John Carew

As a young footballer at United, Steve Bruce was one of the senior pros I really admired.

— Paul Scholes

I like Balotelli: he's even crazier than me. He can score a winner, then set fire to the hotel.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

An openly gay footballer would be exposed to abusive comments.

— Philipp Lahm

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

— Craig Johnston

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Maradona was the real best footballer ever seen in the world.

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

— Gene Stallings

As a footballer, you have to be confident you can win all the time so it does not come as a surprise.

— Peter Schmeichel

I'm enjoying playing football, and as a footballer, that's what you want to do, and that is exactly what I've been doing.

— Ashley Young

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

— Bobby Charlton

Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward's dream, you could make a run and he'd put the ball perfectly…

— Michael Owen

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the…

— Jimmy Armfield

[ Won the 2015 African Player of the Year]meant everything to me. It was the first time a footballer from Gabon was…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

— Jim Stynes

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy…

— Mick Dennis

Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do…

— Emmanuel Petit

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

— Barry Venison

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on…

— Alex Salmond

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

— Richard Ashcroft

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry,…

— Gordon Taylor

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

— H. L. Hunt

I'm a footballer first and foremost and I want to be remembered for what I do on the pitch.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

— Paul Gascoigne

He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his…

— Cesc Fabregas