Top 110 Footballers Quotes

Italian football lost credibility because of the match-fixing scandals – the best footballers didn’t want to come.

In England, especially, mentally if you’re not strong it can eat you up. There’s the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you’re not mentally strong, it can eat you.

The pitch is a footballers workplace. Fans have no more right to be on it during a game than a burglar has being in your house.

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

Before we are footballers or fans, we are ordinary members of society. We are doctors, lawyers, milkmen, postmen, unemployed people, students… So why are they called racist football fans? Are they just racist for the 90 minutes of a match, when the other six days a week they’re not?

It’s football – fans are passionate about it, and sometimes it’s difficult for players to take, but we are good men, and we all make mistakes, and we are footballers.

CR7 is a model to all footballers.

Arsene Wenger’s mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I’ve followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football – football with happiness and football played well.

We are footballers, we can make mistakes and we can lose games.

Like individuals in all walks of life, footballers want stability and we have families to look after.

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.

I think obviously the media need to help promote the game and make it bigger so the younger girls have women role models to look up to and try and aspire to instead of just male footballers.

If there is something I would go back and change it would have been to have lined up some other interest outside to go into after football. That’s one bit of advice I give to young professional footballers, to set that up.

A good thing for footballers is not to think too much, especially when you’ve got to move to a big team like Liverpool, because that’s when you start to confuse your mind.

Footballers’ ‘lack of loyalty,’ for instance, is not an indication of players’ moral delinquency. Instead, the capacity to move on quickly without forming lasting attachments is a skill that the contemporary capitalist world inculcates and relies upon.

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

People see footballers as different beings, as if we’re untouchable, as if nothing ever happens to us, but we’re people. Of course we’re privileged, but in the tangibles, we’re the same.

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.

The simple fact is there are no laws you can pass to stop people racially abusing black footballers. So the solution is to come up with something that doesn’t make people want to abuse black footballers in the first place.

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn’t mean we’re not human.

There is no question that Korean footballers have the ability to play in Europe. The real challenge is whether they will be able to adapt to western culture.

Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.

My dad produces good footballers.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

To play and to win against England is big news around the world, and footballers are always grateful for that.

Few footballers at 20 or 21 are the finished article.

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

Athletes make nothing like the money that footballers or even cricketers earn. If you are a female athlete you are at the bottom of the ladder.

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.

It was an honor to be invited to visit Real Madrid’s training ground and meet Raul, Ronaldo, Kaka, and all the other footballers that play for such a successful team.

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.

From a football perspective, putting young footballers into art, or singing – you’re doing something that’s not so familiar. It has helped us build a team and build a spirit.

My players have to be competitors before footballers. They don’t pull out of tackles in training. It’s full-tilt and if we pick up injuries, we pick up injuries. They have to give everything on the pitch and leave it all out there.

For me, I like to play several games a week because it will help maintain your physical levels throughout the season. Besides, that’s what we like to do as footballers.

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you’re 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.

For most footballers, they just have to give their all for 90 minutes two times a week, and apart from a few training sessions spend the rest of the time resting. They only train intensively for six weeks before the new season.

I’m honored to join a very distinguished group of footballers to appear on the cover of ‘FIFA.’ Most of all, I am humbled that the fans have chosen me, and I will strive to make them proud with my performance on the pitch.

Every player is different, but I try to treat everyone the same. On a day-to-day basis, I come across other footballers and club staff, and I try to treat all the same, from the security guard to Lionel Messi.

We all know the power of social media, things can get out there so quickly. We are high-profile footballers, we know that.

Understanding the menstrual cycle is just one part of the holistic understanding you need to have of your footballers in order to help them prepare.

My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.

I don’t think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

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.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

Everyone thinks footballers have a great life and drive great cars, but sometimes you have to pull the veil away and look behind.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they’re like; they’ll paint a picture before they’ve met them.

I always give my best on the field, but I think modern footballers have a big opportunity to make a difference in peoples’ lives.

The elite footballers of one country meet at the national team and it’s an honour for me to be among them.

It’s the life of the manager: when you make a decision, and the team doesn’t win, the pressure comes. But that’s part of the life of a manager and footballers as well.

I’ve met lots of footballers like Alan Shearer, David Beckham, and Steven Gerrard. I don’t really get starstruck because I just think they’re another footballer like me; they just get paid a lot more.

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

I don’t think where they live is important to footballers.

Don’t get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things that footballers have but you get to a Premier League level because you have something inside you and you can play. Ninety per cent of that is self-pride.

There are a lot of distractions in London, which is the downside to things, for a lot of young footballers as well, and my aim is to beat that. I don’t want to get distracted by anything, my aim is to concentrate on football and do the best I can.

As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I’d go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

When I first started playing I was earning 27.50 a week, and Id offer to clean the senior footballers cars for a couple of quid. Id sweep the stands in the off-season and even paint the changing rooms.