Footballer Quotes · Page 4

I'm very satisfied to close my time as footballer.

— Xabi Alonso

I wanted to be the best footballer I could be and also in the best shape possible.

— Cafu

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

— Ralph Marston

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

— Stan Bowles

I always wanted to be a footballer; I always wanted to play. I was born to be a footballer.

— Alexis Sanchez

For every footballer, to finish in the top ten of the Ballon d'Or is a dream.

— Riyad Mahrez

For a footballer, not playing is like a fish not being in the water.

— Paulinho

I'm very privileged to be a professional footballer, and I want to encourage more young girls to play.

— Steph Houghton

As a footballer I know what I'm good at and I've now embraced it.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

— Gary Cahill

Yes, I was a footballer, but there's more to me than meets the eye. I've got more levels. So many levels. I'm…

— Sol Campbell

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

— Raquel Welch

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne…

— Gary Lineker

People talk about what I did in my private life more than if I'm good at football. 'Oh yeah, he was good,…

— Ashley Cole

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

— Brendan Rodgers

I'm a footballer and not a lawyer or an accountant and my job is to take care of business out on the…

— Jude Bellingham

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and…

— Frank Lampard

You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the…

— Johan Cruijff

I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m…

— Pete Doherty

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

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a…

— Sylvia Plath

“I observed that when a footballer is about to make a threatening strike to score a goal, there comes a big shout…

— Israelmore Ayivor

That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then…

— Gary Lineker

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should…

— Hector Bellerin

I was always clear in my mind what I wanted to do. Becoming a footballer is a dream that is unattainable for…

— Aymeric Laporte

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

— Victor Moses

The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.

— Bojan Krkic

I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

— Simon Weston

It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team.

— Woody Hayes

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

— Alex Ferguson

I'm a footballer through and through. It's all I've ever wanted to be.

— Tobin Heath

Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

— Steve Lomas

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

— Diego Maradona

If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

— George Best

I appreciate every guy, whether he is a footballer or a cook.

— Franck Ribery

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

— Joleon Lescott

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

— Paul Gascoigne

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

— Alan Shearer

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

— Matt Smith