Quotes About Midfield

#1. John Bond has brought in a young left-sided midfield player, who I guess will play on the left side of midfield.

Jimmy Armfield

#2. As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.

Glenn Hoddle

#3. I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

Michel Patini

#4. The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

George Hamilton

#5. Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.

Gordon Strachan

#6. Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.

Emlyn Hughes

#7. Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

Jack Wilshere

#8. For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Alan Shearer

#9. England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

Mark Lawrenson

#10. You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

Jamie Redknapp

#11. I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

Glenn Hoddle

#12. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

Matt Dickinson

#13. If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#14. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

Matthew Engel

#15. With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?

Tony Cascarino

#16. When you play in midfield, you've got to have legs

Steve Lomas

#17. The midfield picks itself - Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A N Other.

Phil Neal

#18. Football coaches meet midfield after a game, but they don't always hug

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#19. A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Conrad Black

#20. By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#21. Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

Andy Garcia

#22. If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.

Ragnar Redbeard

#23. It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#24. I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

Hillary Clinton

#25. Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

Don Shula

#27. After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Gwynne Shotwell

#28. Everybody starts the journey but not everybody completes it; and even those who reach the destined point reach there in different forms and they form different destinies. Be careful as you journey in life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#29. Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.

Alice Borchardt