Best Football Players Quotes

#1. The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

Pete Carroll

#2. The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

#3. Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

George Allen

#4. Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Warren Moon

#5. 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

#6. There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

Jerry Rice

#7. I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Jim Brown

#8. Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

George Best

#9. A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

Hope Powell

#10. Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

Bum Phillips

#11. Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

Franz Beckenbauer

#12. We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

Gerard Houllier

#13. I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Reggie Bush

#14. Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

Pele

#15. I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Michel Patini

#16. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

Matt Dickinson

#17. There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

Troy Polamalu

#18. 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

#19. NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O.J. Simpson

#20. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#21. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

David Bennun