Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him.… — Gary Neville Copy Share Image
The reason I came to London is to become a better footballer, to not stay in my comfort zone. It's given me… — Sam Kerr Copy Share Image
When you are a footballer, you will not always play 90 minutes. Sometimes you are not happy, but this is not important… — Lukas Podolski Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would… — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
I usually sprint for 20 to 30 metres - occasionally 50 to 60 metres maximum. But no footballer ever sprints a complete 100 metres during a game. — Adama Traore Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible. — Kemar Roofe Copy Share Image
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
I was born in a village where there had never been a footballer who'd made it in the major championships. — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to… — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
You don't get everything your own way when you are a professional footballer, and neither should you expect to. — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please… — Trent Shelton Copy Share Image
I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy… — Mick Dennis Copy Share Image
Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play… — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
We won’t ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in… — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as… — Abbey Clancy Copy Share Image
There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves. — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
This is madness - when a single footballer is more expensive than building a hospital or school, the transfer market has lost… — Robbie Savage Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona) — Hristo Stoichkov Copy Share Image
And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
As a footballer, you always want to get better personally. And if you get better personally, you make the team better. — Marc-Andre ter Stegen Copy Share Image
I had an opportunity to play for Paris St-Germain when I was younger and it's important for me to represent a club… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
When I started, when I was eight, I never thought I would make a career out of being a woman footballer. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry,… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't think about what you want to be. I was just playing football because I had fun and… — Kevin-Prince Boateng Copy Share Image
I am different as soon as I am on the pitch, because I had to fight so much and work so hard… — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it. — Paolo Maldini Copy Share Image
It's never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it's… — Simon Mignolet Copy Share Image
I understand football's changing and I'm evolving with it but stats are stats. You can run 15km if you like but I'm… — Jonjo Shelvey Copy Share Image
My dad was not a footballer. He wasn't anything remotely what the average person would say was a role model - but… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a boy, I have wanted to be a professional footballer and to captain my country one day. — Aaron Ramsey Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same… — Marshawn Lynch Copy Share Image
Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I… — Fabrice Muamba Copy Share Image
I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Everyone was a footballer in my family. My grandfather Wilf played for Newcastle and my cousins play. It's in the blood. — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
