Footballer Quotes - Page 11

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

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Player, Numbers, Number 10

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• Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

  Frank Skinner

  Culture, Modern, Fountain

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• I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are.

  Julian Clary

  Gay, Work Out, May

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• Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

  Oliver Kahn

  Successful, Winning, Player

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• If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  People, Culture, Looks

  "'X Factor' culture fuelled UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Colin Daniels, www.digitalspy.com. December 10, 2011.

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

  LeBron James

  Player, Messi, World

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• I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those things allow you to educate yourself about different worlds that you have to get familiar with.

  Robert Kazinsky

  War, Doctors, Soldier

  Source: collider.com

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• How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.

  John B. Keane

  Sex, Thinking, Talking

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• Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

  Eric Cantona

  Creative, Be Creative

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  Angela Merkel

  Sorry, Athlete, Effort

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Frank Rijkaard

  Messi, Impossible

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• Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Singers, Might

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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

  Diego Della Valle

  Kids, Racing, Wanted

  Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wall, Tombstone, College

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• Everyone thinks footballers have it easy and at this time of year see loads of pictures of players relaxing on beaches and in bars but what they don't see is most of them will be doing their own fitness regimes. If you don't you will get back and you will be off the pace, might get injured and won't play football matches.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Football, Beach, Player

  "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com.

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• You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Needs, Poverty, Produce

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• Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

  Ann Burton

  Strikes

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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Dream, Kids

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• People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Etoo and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight

  Thierry Henry

  Games, Two, Differences

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• 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.

  Gary Neville

  Successful, League, Titles

  "Ryan Giggs named best player in Premier League's 20-year history", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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

  Andres Iniesta

  Needs, Wide

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

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

  Frank Lampard

  Kind, Stereotype, Unfair

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

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

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Thinking, Different, Vans

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• I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

  Rupert Grint

  Children, Crazy, People

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