- Newcastle
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
- Nov 07, 2020
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.
- Nov 07, 2020