Footballer Quotes - Page 8

• Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

  Gordon Taylor

  Horse, Racing, Release

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• What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

  Raquel Welch

  Couple, Intelligent, Yesterday

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• Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

  Gordon Taylor

  Sports, Country, Gambling

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• 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.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  Interview with Gary Neville, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

  Gary Lineker

  Congratulations, Careers, Chance

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

  Gordon Ramsay

  Successful, Cooks, Could Have Been

  "Gordon Ramsay on Rangers". www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2002.

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• 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.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Doe, Balls

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• Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward's dream, you could make a run and he'd put the ball perfectly in your path. Any footballer you ask will always tell you that Scholesy was one of the best players they've ever played with.

  Michael Owen

  Dream, Running, Player

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• 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'.

  Alan Shearer

  Dad, School, Men

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• You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

  Chris Waddle

  Thinking, League, Firsts

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

  Eamon Dunphy

  Memorable, Division, Thirds

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• 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.

  Joe Hart

  Football, Games, League

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.

  Pep Guardiola

  People, Worry, Fool

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• Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much about him. He had so much quality and he was a player I looked to growing up. Him and Tony Adams - another footballer who's won it all.

  John Terry

  Growing Up, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• 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!

  David Beckham

  Looks, England, Seven

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• 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)

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Player, Men

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• If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, England, Stills

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

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

  Simon Weston

  Jobs, Serious, Wells

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Clubs, Want, Pages

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

  Michael Owen

  Want, Strings, Modelling

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• I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Football, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Men

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• 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.

  Ian Holloway

  Laughing, Bird, Sake

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• For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see; it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.

  Wayne Rooney

  Player, Games, Long

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