Footballer Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Sergio Aguero

  Play, Messi, World

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• I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.

  Pete Doherty

  Kids, People, Musician

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

  Frank Lampard

  Hard Times, Player, Different

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• 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.

  Ronaldinho

  Football, Thinking, Musician

  "Homage from Catalonia". Interview with Justin Webster, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2005.

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• Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

  Matt Smith

  Stars, Rocks, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.

  Alan Shearer

  Daughter, Dad, Golf

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• I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

  Mick Dennis

  Soccer, Football, Long

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• If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?

  Nicky Campbell

  Football, Sex, Men

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

  Wayne Rooney

  Mean, Spotlight, Lifestyle

  "Wayne Rooney cheats on pregnant wife Coleen with £1k-a-night prostitute" by Simon Wright, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2010.

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

  Karren Brady

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Sex

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• 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.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Thinking, Servant

  "Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography". Book by Alex Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. 2013.

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• Footballers are no different from human beings.

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Different, Humans

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

  Matt Smith

  Kids, Becoming, Injured

  "Q&A: Matt Smith" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Football, Dream, Children

  "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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

  Gordon Strachan

  People, Bad Press, Presses

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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

  David Icke

  Television, Green, Next

  David Icke (1990). “It Doesn't Have to be Like this: Green Politics Explained”, Merlin Press

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• He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry

  Steve Bruce

  Fields, Privilege, Talent

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• Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

  Anna Friel

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Support

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Derek Johnstone

  Soccer, Brain, Soccer Player

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• The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

  Ivan Slavkov

  Football, Running, Unions

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• Alfredo Di Stéfano was the greatest footballer of all time - far better even than Pelé. He was, simultaneously, the anchor in defence, the playmaker in midfield, and the most dangerous marksman in attack.

  Helenio Herrera

  Anchors, Dangerous, All Time

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Umpires, Complaining

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• The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

  Fernando Torres

  Ambition, Champions League, Play

  "Fernando Torres targets debut goal against Liverpool". www.independent.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

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