Quotes About Football Clubs

#1. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

Novak Djokovic

#2. There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

Peter Shilton

#3. I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

Vinnie Jones

#4. I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

Clive Anderson

#5. Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

Alexei Mordashov

#6. Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived ... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

#7. There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

Gary Neville

#8. The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

Bill Peterson

#9. 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

#10. The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.

Ron Greenwood

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

Eamon Dunphy

#12. 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

#13. Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

Walter Smith

#14. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Franklin Foer

#15. It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. 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

#17. With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat. We're talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it happen? That was me.

Nevin Shapiro

#18. We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Amit Bhatia

#19. It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.

Neymar

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

Simon Kuper

#21. That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other.

Ron Noades

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

Matt Busby

#23. It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

Freddy Adu

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

Alan Green

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

Brendan Rodgers

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

Rob Hawthorne

#27. In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Graham Taylor

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

Sean Fallon

#29. 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

#30. At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

Drew Busby

#31. I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Jose Mourinho

#32. These two clubs had a monopoly of the domestic honours last season.

Tony Gubba

#33. I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

Sam Claflin

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

Robert Kelly

#35. As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.

Sepp Blatter

#36. 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

#37. I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

Theo Rossi

#38. 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

#39. It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Robbie Fowler

#40. Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

Simon Barnes

#41. I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

Sepp Blatter

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

Joe Kinnear

#43. In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

Angela Merkel

#44. This is why people get obsessed with festivals, or clubs, or drugs, or football, or other temporal approximations of togetherness; these distilled vials of the elixir are craved by our starved souls.

Russell Brand

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

Lloyd Doyley

#46. I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.

John Simm