Around the world Quote by Mats Hummels

Through Common Goal, we're creating a collaborative way for football to give back to society.

— Juan Mata

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

— Juan Mata

I find football much more powerful than what grown-ups want it to be. It's a community to me; it's something very meaningful in the…

— Vincent Kompany

It is important that we try to present an image of sport in the world that changes the idea that football is only about…

— Joan Laporta

We have professional football, but we also have a beautiful game which, wherever you go, can be used as a social tool for change.…

— Juan Mata

Football inspires and excites people like nothing else on the planet, and what I love about Common Goal is that it channels this passion…

— Shinji Kagawa

That's what all of us want, why we're getting involved in so many campaigns - we want to leave football in a better place…

— Fran Kirby

We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

— Gary Lineker

Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.

— Jerry Jones

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than…

— Graeme Souness

Football can help carve a more diverse world.

— Clarence Seedorf

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured…

— Pete Rozelle