Footballer Quotes
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Footballer Quotes & Sayings
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I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.
— Luis Suarez
Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.
— LeBron James
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.
— Franz Beckenbauer
More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.
— Victoria Beckham
Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.
— Jamelia
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
— Eric Cantona
I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.
— Paul Gascoigne
How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.
— John B. Keane
Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.
— Sepp Blatter
Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
— Abbey Clancy
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
— Ferran Adria
I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.
— Alan Smith
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
The last player I truly idolize ... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him.
(on Maradona) — Hristo Stoichkov
(on Maradona) — Hristo Stoichkov
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.
— Gary Lineker
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
— John B. Keane
Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.
— Craig Johnston
If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?
— Nicky Campbell
There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
— Diego Maradona
As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.
— Joleon Lescott
I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.
— Eamon Dunphy
Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.
— Osvaldo Ardiles
As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.
— Ruud Van Nistelrooy
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.
— Gary Neville
I'm a footballer, I don't think past next Saturday.
— Joleon Lescott
If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin
— Peter Crouch
If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
— Alex Ferguson
He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.
— Derek Johnstone
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
Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
— Gordon Ramsay
As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
— Karren Brady
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
The money footballers earn today is incredulous
— Bobby Gould
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.
— Wayne Rooney
Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.
— Paolo Maldini
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
— George Best
People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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.
— Steven Gerrard
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
— Zinedine Zidane
There is pressure every day as a footballer.
— Jamie Redknapp
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
— Zinedine Zidane
I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.
— David Beckham
If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.
— Michael Owen
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.
— Diego Della Valle
The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
— Michel Patini
To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.
— Cesar Luis Menotti
I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.
— Frank Lampard
It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.
— Frank Rijkaard
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
— Walter Smith
Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?
— David Icke
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.
— David Beckham
I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.
— Michael Owen