Footballers Quotes · Page 4

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

— Steph Houghton

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

— Lothar Matthaus

I've been young before, looked up to footballers and maybe they've been too busy to sign an autograph or say hello.

— James Ward-Prowse

Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.

— Roberto Carlos

I respect footballers of any skin colour and any sexual orientation.

— Hulk

I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout.

— Micah Richards

Nigerian footballers who have played in Russia improved their ability here.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

— Anonymous

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like;…

— Chris Coleman

Maybe I don't take certain things for granted as much as some footballers because I remember what it was like to train…

— Ashley Barnes

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on…

— Louise Nurding

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

— Gary Lineker

There are footballers who are very good playing on the outside but don't know what to do inside. Then there are players…

— Pep Guardiola

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

— Raquel Welch

A good thing for footballers is not to think too much, especially when you've got to move to a big team like…

— Sadio Mane

“Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think people don't really understand how much footballers are affected by the people in their lives. When we're interviewed, people always…

— Ivan Rakitic

Those of us who have feeling, who are sensitive, who can be affected, need a good shield. Footballers are very young and…

— Bojan Krkic

When you're out there together on the pitch, you're fighting for each other. It's amazing, overwhelming and you either sink or swim…

— Jermaine Jenas

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when…

— Sol Campbell

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is…

— Martin Jacques

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen…

— Ryan Giggs

Footballers have been groaning about media pundits for as long as I can remember.

— David James

This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.

— Gary Lineker

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

— Eamon Dunphy

As a player, you want to win every game. That's what footballers do: they want to play, and they want to win.

— Jordan Henderson

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

— Frank Skinner

When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.

— Alexandre Pato

Everyone likes to be praised for their work and footballers are no different but the key thing is staying level-headed.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

— Gordon Strachan

Sometimes it's better for footballers to be occupied by something else.

— Rodri

Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time.

— Richard Møller Nielsen

I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.

— Sol Campbell

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

— Fernando Torres

I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

— Diego Simeone

Contrary to what some people might think, most footballers don't know much about their team-mates' transfers.

— David James

But 30 is a turning point in most footballers' lives - because your market value starts to fall.

— Robbie Savage

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

— Gordon Taylor