Career Quote by Gary Lineker

In football, you bottle everything up. It's dangerous because to perform at your best you need to be mentally ready.

— Darren Fletcher

At the end of the day, if you're a footballer, your job is to play.

— Reece James

At the end of the day, you want to be on the pitch as a footballer.

— Antonio Rudiger

When you are a footballer, you will not always play 90 minutes. Sometimes you are not happy, but this is not important for me.

— Lukas Podolski

You work so hard when you are young just to get to be a footballer, so when you make it you shouldn't complain.

— Darren Bent

When you do nothing for two and half weeks and then you start training again, you feel like you have never played football before.

— Kai Havertz

You train far more in France than in England. Here, we still see football as a game. Football is a job. There is still…

— Patrick Vieira

Sometimes when you come every day to training you can't realise how big it is to be a footballer.

— Kolo Toure

When you're in an academy, every day you're in at 9 A.M., and it's, 'Do this, do that,' but we just came with our…

— Riyad Mahrez

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more…

— Calvin Johnson

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

— Johan Cruijff

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside…

— Graham Taylor