Quotes About Footballers

#1. Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

Martin Jacques

#2. Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time.

Richard Moller Nielsen

#3. I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. People in the real world envy footballers. It is a fabulous life with rewards they can only dream of stuck in offices and factories doing jobs they hate.

P.J. Davitt

#5. You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

Eamon Dunphy

#6. As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

Karren Brady

#7. If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Iain Duncan Smith

#8. Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Gordon Taylor

#9. Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

Gary Lineker

#10. The money footballers earn today is incredulous

Bobby Gould

#11. I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

Simon Weston

#12. Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

Gary Lineker

#13. Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anna Friel

#14. He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

Derek Johnstone

#15. We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and maybe even to play for other clubs. We hope this will be well received by everybody and enhance good relations between Malaysia and Bosnia.

Vincent Tan

#16. People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.

Andy Gray

#17. If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Alan Shearer

#18. What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

Raquel Welch

#19. Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be injured. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.

Gordon Taylor

#20. I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.

Pep Guardiola

#21. There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

Gordon Taylor

#22. The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Louise Nurding

#23. Footballers are no different from human beings.

Graham Taylor

#24. I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

Mick Dennis

#25. Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

Jamelia

#26. You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

Chris Waddle

#27. When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Pele

#28. The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

Ivan Slavkov

#29. One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

Marta

#30. Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

Sugata Mitra

#31. There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

Matt Smith

#32. Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

Sepp Blatter

#33. Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

Gary Lineker

#34. Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball.

Sean Bean

#35. People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Gordon Strachan

#36. As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

Joleon Lescott

#37. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Angela Merkel

#38. What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

Ryan Giggs

#39. Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

Matt Smith

#40. Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.

Alex Ferguson

#41. Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

Frank Skinner

#42. I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

Glenn Hoddle

#43. I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are.

Julian Clary

#44. Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Gordon Taylor

#45. Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

Emmanuel Petit

#46. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

#47. Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

Lilian Thuram

#48. If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

Alan Shearer

#49. The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

Fernando Torres

#50. In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

Xavi

#51. Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Martin Jacques

#52. Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

Ann Burton

#53. Because I love football and I love the footballers.

Sepp Blatter

#54. Blake looked confused. So footballers were mostly the same the world over. "Football," Blake said. "Ya know ... football?

Lisa Henry

#55. The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

Franz Beckenbauer

#56. When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Tony Abbott

#57. People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Ian Watson

#58. People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.

Didier Drogba

#59. Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

Johan Cruyff

#60. Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

Frank Lampard

#61. Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

John Barrowman

#62. There are hundreds and hundreds of women who are married to footballers, and we get to see a very small handful of them. They are all different individuals, and they choose the way they want to live their life or look, and I don't think it is really fair on anyone else to judge.

Louise Nurding

#63. Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Sid Waddell