Playing football Quotes · Page 5

Ever since I started playing football, I've always taken the number 10 shirt.

— Sadio Mane

I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

— Toni Kroos

I have never doubted that I would succeed from the moment I first began playing football.

— Demba Ba

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

I was getting well paid but I never started playing football for the money.

— Rickie Lambert

I play football because I love the sport so much and for the sake of playing football.

— Stephan Lichtsteiner

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

— Dan Birdwell

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

— Mickey Rourke

I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse…

— Andrew Luck

I loved playing football with my brothers. I would go to school as well, but I loved football, so I played it…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping…

— Luke Shaw

I don't want to be sitting in the gym by myself doing rehab. I want to be outside doing what I love…

— Andy Carroll

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in…

— Aaron Judge

When Saturday or a match comes, I just look forward to playing football and scoring goals for the team.

— Andy Carroll

Since I was a young boy, it was about playing football, always as a striker, never another position.

— Teemu Pukki

I'm definitely not a track guy playing football. I'm a football guy that just happens to jump really far.

— Marquise Goodwin

Among the many things that I loved about playing football was sitting around the locker room with teammates and poking fun at…

— Mark Schlereth

I consider myself lucky because I've had the possibility in life to do the one thing closest to my heart: playing football.…

— Filippo Inzaghi

A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing…

— Judith Viorst

Some people would see a person like me who plays football and be star-struck. From my perspective, I'm just a person, but…

— Sony Michel

I never worry about injury. When you go out there, you're playing football. And when you start worrying about those things, that's…

— Mitchell Trubisky

I'll continue to try and prepare as hard as I can and be as ready as possible, but when the game starts…

— Blake Bortles

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at…

— Matteo Manassero

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

— Wayne Rooney

Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

— Michael East

I've wanted to do medicine actually before I started playing football.

— Myron Rolle

I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.

— John Matuszak

I play because I love the game. I love the process, I love the work, I love playing football.

— Mohamed Sanu

I'm just a lad who likes playing football. I'm not bothered about anything else.

— Jordan Pickford

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

— Pilou Asbaek

It is impossible to be social distancing while playing football.

— Matt Doherty

I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever.

— Torrey Smith

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

— Jordan Rodgers

I was not aware of what my dad had accomplished. I grew up with him playing football.

— Michelle Carter

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

— Michael Strahan

If you're not ambitious, there's no point in playing football.

— Jordan Pickford

I started playing football when I was about six and it was sometimes hard to take the bus.

— Davinson Sanchez

Everyone wants to have fun playing football. A person goes to the stadium to have fun.

— Roberto Carlos