Footballer Quotes

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
Eric Cantona

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
Lionel Messi

Love, Money, Happy

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Gordon Ramsay

Successful, Definitely, Achieved

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
Wayne Rooney

Means, Lead, Lifestyle

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
Wayne Rooney

Time, Greatest, Country

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
Diego Maradona

Best, Everyone, Seen

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
Dylan Moran

Famous, Actually, Division

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane

Important, Real, Person

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
Jo Nesbo

Lost, Grown, Myth

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
Ryan Giggs

Life, Children, Year

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

Famous, Strong, Once

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
Gary Lineker

Him, Playing, Week

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.
Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.
Jamie Redknapp

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.
Paul Gascoigne

Forward, Bring, Continue

I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.
Rupert Grint

Life, Family, Crazy

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

Person, Different, Private

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
Gary Neville

Time, Successful, Him

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
John B. Keane

Good, Else, Everybody

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.
Michael J. Owen

Nothing, Wanted, Knew

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.
Brendan Coyle

Age, Good, Great

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'
Andres Iniesta

High, Needs, Rule

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.
Craig Johnston

Bad, Wrong, Jack

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
Bobby Charlton

Mind, Kids, Succeed

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
Ryan Giggs

Famous, Successful, Reality

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'
Ryan Giggs

Job, Accept, Though

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.
Michael Owen

Young, Wanted, Since

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.
Timothy F. Cahill

Play, Everyone, Criticism

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.
Timothy F. Cahill

Work, Attitude, Help

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
Walter Smith

Play, Attention, Started

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