Focus Quote by Shaun Wright-Phillips

Not all things always go your way and you have to accept that. That's what you are going to get as a footballer.

— Simon Mignolet

When you are a successful footballer, you get put on a pedestal. You are the person your friends and family look up to, and…

— Micah Richards

There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.

— Aaron Donald

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible.

— Kemar Roofe

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for…

— Luis Enrique

I think I like to do a lot of things to, you know, turn off the 'football head.' I think that's really important so…

— Erling Haaland

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

— Romesh Ranganathan

I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the…

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions.

— Adam Lallana

To be a footballer you have to be a certain type, you have to walk that tightrope near the addictive gene to make it…

— Tony Adams

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

— Ricky Williams