It’s really great to see all the people who’ve become involved in building up the Premier League, especially in the States.
A lot of the South Korean players are very interested in the Premier League. They ask questions about what life there is like, so I try to give them answers.
I thank God for having played for four years in the best Barcelona team in history, but playing in the Premier League is also very important.
In the Premier League, there is a team above the others. This team is Manchester City. Then there is a very good team, Liverpool.
People can expect that from me as premier: If there’s something to be done, something to be fixed, it’ll happen.
I don’t agree that there are big teams and small teams in the Premier League. There are just a lot of good teams.
At 18, I jumped to the Premier League from League Two which looks good on paper but it’s about the journey and the stepping stones.
The Premier League is the best league.
I think that many players, just like me, feel a strong desire to play in the Premier League.
I defend my position. I am not Messi. I am not Ronaldo. I have something else. I am not the quickest, like Walcott. I have to be clever and read situations. If I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t be able to play Premier League. Everybody has a strength – this is mine.
I like the Premier League.
The most important thing is making sure that we survive because Fulham deserves to be in the Premier League – it’s a great club with a lot of history.
I am pretty confident I can adapt to the style of the Premier League.
I don’t know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.
Manchester United is like the American team in the Premier League, and everyone knows the weight of it back home. It is so exciting for me to wear a badge that is well known.
All I want to do is win the Premier League and Europa League – I don’t stop to think about being named as the Player of the Year. It’s not something that interests me.
I didn’t have anything against Manchester United or any other team, and my dream was always to play in the Premier League one day, but my heart told me the best thing would be to stay at Lille.
I played professional football for 21 years, captained four clubs in the Premier League and won 39 caps for my country.
The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is absurd.
When you play in the Premier League, say you’re playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it’s more of an open game, it’s more attacking, end-to-end.
I love London! But the thing I love the most is the Premier League.
At the top end of the Premier League, you have to be ruthless. Even just to get in the top four is hard.
Of course, the Premier League is one of the trophies we want to win and I think to win the Europa League would be good for the mentality of winning trophies and fighting with the top clubs.
I don’t think I was ready for the Premier League until I was 24 at Southampton.
Being the best-paid in the Premier League fills me with pride at being Chilean.
I had come from Poland and the attention on you is much bigger when you get to the Premier League, so everything was doubled or tripled. Obviously, there were times when I struggled to deal with the criticism.
Everyone told me the Premier League is the hardest. So I just wanted to try because I had nothing to lose.
Ever since I started watching Premier League, I found English football very appealing.
In the Premier League, they don’t give a foul even when it is a foul. We can’t dive or pretend things.
The Premier League, for me, is the best league in the world. It has the best competitiveness.
I have always said that one day I would like to play in the Premier League.
I really wanted to play in the Premier League, which I’d been watching since I was a youngster every Saturday or Sunday before I’d go and play for Rosario Central.
The profile is to find if someone can perform in the Championship and help you win, and also play in the Premier League because that has to be the goal.
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
I have watched many Premier League games and they look very different to the Spanish game, particularly much faster.
It is not easy to bring the methods of a new manager to the Premier League.
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we’ve got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn’t that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
The first Premier League season is always tough for anyone.
The fear for English players has always been that you might risk a place in the national team if you go abroad but now with all the technology we have, and social media, you are able to watch goals and assists every week, which means his performances are just as noticeable as anyone’s in the Premier League.
In the Premier League, you don’t have one second to breathe – you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus – just for a few seconds – the game will pass you by. It’s 100 miles an hour.
Try to imagine if all the Premier League games were now available, easily accessed by match or by season or by team via Amazon or Netflix. The audience could be much bigger. The single price per client could be lower; the total amount would still be bigger.
My toenails are out of my foot because of all the stamps I have received during games. But it’s fine. This is the Premier League and the way they play here.
I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.
I’ve always appreciated English football and the Premier League, I’ve always liked it.
My defensive side was something I wanted to work on, especially coming into the Premier League.
The Premier League is a notch above. It’s maybe the best league in the world.
For me it is good to win, to win the Premier League is a dream for me.
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze – just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they’re all ‘Made in Italy.’ We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
As a young boy, all we used to watch was the Premier League at that time. I know the FA cup is quite important. It’s as important as the Premier League in England. And I had a chance to win it over our biggest rival, and it was also in the new Wembley. It was a great moment.
I think, for everyone who wants to get to the highest level, you have to be in the Premier League, of course.
You could say I’ve not been the same player for Ireland as I have in the Premier League.
It’s very hard to retain the Premier League.
You don’t manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven’t got something that enables you to cope with pressure.
I’m very excited to start training and play in the Premier League, which is the best in the world.
The Premier League is the best league in the world, and it is very well regarded if you get a chance to play in it.
The Premier League is the best league in the world; it’s so strong. The smaller teams love to try their chances against the big ones, and this is why the game goes back and forth. That can be strenuous, tough on you and your body, but I really love it.
My parents wanted me to stay in England because they love the football here and how the people feel about football. It was important for them, too, that I stayed in the Premier League.
Spurs will always have a place in my heart. They gave me a chance to play Premier League football, and I’ll be forever indebted to them.
The best league in the world is the Premier League, so I am so happy to be here playing with and against big players.
Inside me there are two people. One is a very aggressive – I want to win; I won the Premier League, but now I want to win on Saturday. I want to win next season – and is never satisfied.
Having more money allows you to play in a certain way, but that’s the beauty of the Premier League – there are so many different styles.
The Premier League is a very interesting league and I can imagine it could be a big aim to be a big manager in the Premier League one day like Jurgen Klopp who is very successful.
I feel like German football is a lot more aggressive and faster. I’ve never played in the Premier League, so I couldn’t say what it was like. But going from youth football, I would say it’s a lot faster and lot more physical.
