Footballer Quotes

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

I'm a footballer, I don't think past next Saturday.

...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

The money footballers earn today is incredulous

He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

It's is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it - I would love to.

I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes' regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late!