With United, we’d all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it together.
– David Beckham
I see football as an art and all players are artists.If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful – it doesn’t matter who scores the goals as long as we’re winning.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn’t matter if it’s a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
– Cesar Luis Menotti
If you never concede a goal, you’re going to win more games than you lose.
– Bobby Moore
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
– George Orwell
It’s not about the long ball or the short ball, it’s about the right ball.
– Bob Paisley
Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
– Pier Paolo Pasoloni
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.
– Pele
Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
– Pope John Paul II
In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
– Stanley Rous
In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.
– Peter Schmeichel
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
– Bill Shankly
Football is only a game. That is the most outrageous nonsense of the lot. Football is a science, it’s an art, it is war, ballet, drama, terror and joy all rolled into one.
– Tom Utley
Football is all right as a game for rough girls but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
– Oscar Wilde
There’s some people on the pitch… they think it’s all over… it is now!
– Kenneth Wolstenholme
One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.
– New York Tribune
If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I’d be a doctor. I ain’t, so I’m a football player.
– Dick Butkus
Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
– Paul Brown
Watching football is like watching pornography. There’s plenty of action, and I can’t take my eyes off it, but when it’s over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
– Luke Salisbury
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
– Frank Gifford
To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.
– Cesar Luis Menotti
Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.
– Hugh McDiarmid
Football is a game of tomorrows.
– Geoff Hurst
Football is an art.
– Germaine Greer
Football at its best is a game of beauty and intelligence.
– Ron Greenwood