England Team Quotes

#1. The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

Zinedine Zidane

#2. I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

Wayne Rooney

#3. Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

Ron Atkinson

#4. The England team is a team that never, ever stops.

Kevin Pietersen

#5. Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

Clive Woodward

#6. The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

Stuart Law

#7. I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.

Jonny Wilkinson

#8. This team [England] has some of the best players in England

David Beckham

#9. I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

Timothy F. Cahill

#10. They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch.
(on Arsenal)

Frank Lampard

#11. To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

Jonny Wilkinson

#12. Yardy doing a good job out there - 1-14 off his five overs so far - but Bangla are letting this drift. The bowling is there to attack, but they're as passive as sleeping sloths at the mo.

Tom Fordyce

#13. I've got my own targets ... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

Peter Crouch

#14. I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

Jonny Wilkinson

#15. Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.

Jose Mourinho

#16. Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

Paul Sculthorpe

#17. There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

Michael Clarke

#18. Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?

James Anderson

#19. Never, and by this I mean never, criticise the English weather. Especially if you're an alien. For an English woman, it's as though you are scolding her first born child. For an Englishman, it's as if you are criticising the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team.

Angela Kiss

#20. England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.

Michael Clarke

#21. I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Jeffrey Archer

#22. The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

Michael Owen

#23. Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

Ashley Cole

#24. How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?

Billy Bragg

#25. When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

Michael Owen

#26. Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

John Prescott

#27. The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

Lawrence Booth

#28. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

Landon Donovan

#29. It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

Claudio Reyna

#30. I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do.
(on signing for Manchester united)

Wayne Rooney

#31. I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

Zach Braff

#32. The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

Michel Patini

#33. The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.

Dixie Dean

#34. A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

Jay Leno

#35. Playing for England was a massive honour and when I was in the team, that was all I wanted to focus on.

Mike Tindall

#36. I had no idea that the Scottish so loathed the English that their favorite team in the world is whichever one is presently playing England.

Bill Bryson

#37. We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

David Beckham

#38. England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#39. Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

Ron Atkinson

#40. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#41. We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

Paul Collingwood

#42. [Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.

Michael Owen

#43. He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.

Andrew Strauss

#44. I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.

Xavi

#45. The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England.

Sterling Sharpe