Footballer Quotes - Page 9

• Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Player, Shopping

  "'I'd stab myself with a sausage!' - French football quotes of 2011" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2011.

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• 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

  Cheating, Player, Games

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see; it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.

  Wayne Rooney

  Player, Games, Long

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• 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

  Jobs, Going Out, Taste

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• 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

  Fighting, Player, Kicking

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Finals, World

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

  Raquel Welch

  Couple, Intelligent, Yesterday

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

  John Barrowman

  Men, Rome, Would Be

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

  Jamelia

  Wife, Leeches, Want

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• The money footballers earn today is incredulous

  Bobby Gould

  Today

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• Footballers are no different from human beings.

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Different, Humans

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• 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

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Support

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?

  Nicky Campbell

  Football, Sex, Men

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• There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

  Jock Stein

  No Excuses, Fit, Excuse

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• 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

  Football, Player, Hands

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• Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Thinking, Servant

  "Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography". Book by Alex Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. 2013.

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

  Karren Brady

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Football, Dream, Children

  "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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

  Gordon Strachan

  People, Bad Press, Presses

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• I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

  Ronaldinho

  Football, Thinking, Musician

  "Homage from Catalonia". Interview with Justin Webster, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2005.

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