Footballer Quotes

Footballer Quote of the day

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been... a virgin.

Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

Ronaldo can do whatever he wants as a footballer. There are some things he does with the ball that make me touch my head and wonder how he did it.

Nowadays, Messi is better than Ronaldinho. He is the best footballer in the world right now. And I'm not the only who says so. Everyone who has seen him play says so too.

As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.