Quotes About Football Club

#1. Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

Brendan Rodgers

#2. Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.

Xavi

#3. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.

Lloyd Dorfman

#4. Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

Simon Jordan

#5. I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.

James Hird

#6. There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

Walter Smith

#7. No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.

Timothy F. Cahill

#8. The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

Kenny Dalglish

#9. If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#10. We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

Steven Gerrard

#11. It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

David Moyes

#12. Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

Gordon Brown

#13. I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Roman Abramovich

#14. I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.

Viktor Vekselberg

#15. There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.

Ian Rush

#16. Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

Timothy F. Cahill

#17. I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

Ian Rush

#18. That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

Fergus McCann

#19. I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

Roman Abramovich

#20. I found the support inside Old Trafford has been terrific and, if there was ever a show of support for the football club and team, it was in this game. Inside Old Trafford it was terrific, it really was.

David Moyes

#21. United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

Matt Busby

#22. He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it's only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses.

Tera Lynn Childs

#23. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Bill Shankly

#24. It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

Kenny Dalglish

#25. I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

David Moyes

#26. It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

Jermain Defoe

#27. This Celtic football club is much more than a football club to a lot of people its a way of life-

Robert Kelly

#28. I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club.

Sean Fallon

#29. Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted.

Simon Jordan

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

Gerard Houllier

#31. It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.

Fergus McCann

#32. When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

Dennis Bergkamp

#33. I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

John Toshack

#34. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

David Moyes

#35. The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

Roman Abramovich

#36. Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

Max Walker

#37. With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

Gary Neville

#38. I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

Michael Gray

#39. You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

Alex Ferguson

#40. My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club.

Fernando Torres

#41. Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

Andrea Della Valle

#42. Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

Vincent Kompany

#43. The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

Ron Noades

#44. In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

Graham Taylor

#45. Any time you do an Adam Sandler film, it's kind of like a boys' club, because you're hanging out and there are guitars around, and basketballs and footballs and electric bikes and scooters and different people dropping by.

Kevin Nealon

#46. This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

Ian Holloway

#47. With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

Anne Campbell

#48. Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

Chris Jericho

#49. The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.

Simon Kuper

#50. Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

Matt Busby

#51. My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

Bruce Dickinson

#52. I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.

Vincent Tan

#53. They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

Alan Green

#54. No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.

Rob Hawthorne

#55. There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

Jermain Defoe

#56. Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Eamon Dunphy

#57. After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.

Chuck Palahniuk

#58. 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

#59. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#60. There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

Sepp Blatter

#61. Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Samuel Eto'o

#62. If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

Franz Beckenbauer

#63. It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

Dennis Bergkamp

#64. Loyalty doesn't seem to be in the game that much these days where players leave their clubs which made them the stars they are today either to seek personal glory or fill their pockets. But one man serves as the epitome of club loyalty..

Steven Gerrard

#65. So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

Frank Skinner

#66. They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change ... I don't have sympathy, no.

Brendan Rodgers

#67. It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

Gordon Strachan

#68. Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

Patrick Vieira

#69. Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

Kevin Kilbane

#70. Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

Johan Cruijff

#71. The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Joe Kinnear

#72. The club survived though and became a symbol of hope and pride for over half a million refugees scattered across Azerbaijan, many of whom still live in temporary settlements within a few kilometers of the frontline.

Arthur Huizinga

#73. Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.

Sepp Blatter

#74. I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

#75. I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

David Beckham

#76. Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

Johnny Giles

#77. I've only played for Watford, so I'm a one-man club.

Lloyd Doyley

#78. You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

Fernando Torres