Midfielder Quotes

#1. This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!

Nick Moran

#2. Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

Rod Liddle

#3. A good midfielder has eyes in the back of his head, that's the secret in a nutshell

Ernst Happel

#4. I'm famous for being a silky midfielder.

Phil Daniels

#5. In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES

Xavi

#6. To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

Xavi

#7. The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

Andrea Pirlo

#8. I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

Yaya Toure

#9. I can't think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

Thierry Henry

#10. My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.

Zinedine Zidane

#11. Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.

Andres Iniesta

#12. Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance.

Marcello Lippi

#13. Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.

Carli Lloyd

#14. Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would had loved to play alongside him.

Pep Guardiola

#15. Jamie Carragher trained with United as a youngster. When he was with us he was a midfielder and a mundane, run-of-the-mill player.

Alex Ferguson

#16. Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Zinedine Zidane

#17. When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

Usain Bolt

#18. There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan

#19. Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.

Jason Momoa

#20. But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.

Michelle Franklin

#21. And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.
And he answered :
You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Kahlil Gibran

#22. Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#23. In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.

Peter Eisenman

#24. Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.

John Coltrane

#25. If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

Teresa Of Avila

#26. We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.

Eric Thomas

#27. Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

Les Carter

#28. It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see.

Muhammad Yunus

#29. If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

Nido R. Qubein