- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football Quotes
Reflections from the field, the sideline, and the stands.
This set of football quotes draws on players describing what the game demanded of them, from proving doubters wrong despite their size to naming the skills that earned them a nickname. A few speak plainly about football being central to who they are, not just a pastime. For more on the people who play it, see our Football Players quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned lots, obviously - the first thing being never to forget to be grateful. The second is not to bear grudges, because in football, luck does not exist.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wolfsburg might be a smaller club when you look at reputations and I thought about it long and hard. I could have stayed at Chelsea. Mourinho told me that I would get my chance. You have to make a decision, though, and in the end I only wanted to play football again.
- Nov 07, 2020
Football is crazy sometimes.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come to Fulham on loan, they haven't paid anything for me. I'm just here to play football and they see that I want to give everything. I get the feeling that they give me something so that I can be at my best.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have John Terry, Frank Lampard on the pitch, they've seen everything in football. And it gives you a good feeling because they know what to do.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think football is a team sport.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football I think if you don't have the intention to touch the ball and you have your arms in a natural position it is not handball.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to know about football and everything about a club when I play there, so I talk to people when they come up to me in the street.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020