Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.

PSG is the team I’ve always supported, since I was little.

When it’s good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person’s life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I’d never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

I owe everything to Spain – that’s where I learned to write, to read, and to play football

Football is global; it does not end at Barca.

We have to play football and not talk. We don’t talk about politics, the personal opinions, and debates – you take them home. We only talk about football. That’s what we are here for.

For me, it’s a pleasure to play football every three or four days.

You can play football in Bayern, in Barcelona, in Manchester, in London, wherever. In the end, it’s football, and you want to play with the best.

Munich is a spectacular city with fantastic flair and a tremendous passion for football.

Football has a thing: You have to decide on an action in a moment, and your head has to be fresh for taking that decision in the moment

I love watching English football. It’s the league I most enjoy

Football’s always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

Football’s become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that’s down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

Heading is still a vital part of being a striker, and it isn’t about being the biggest player. Heading the ball is about timing, so work on that in training.

Watching all the football over the weekend – and having to wait until Monday night to play – gets you ready, gets you firing.

I’ve been to Wembley a couple of times to see England, but the match which stands out for me is the 2008 Carling Cup final against Chelsea. I was there as a fan with the family. That was a great day out.

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience – I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It’s definitely something that’s helped me with my game.

In a game, you never know what chance you’re going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I’m ready for that chance when it comes.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

When I was growing up, Keane and Sheringham were my idols, and they wore 10. So it was always my dream to wear it.

In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age.

Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.

I think self-belief is a massive thing in football. If you don’t believe in yourself, not many others will. Work hard and believe in yourself, and I think you’ll go as far as your body will take you.

To go out at Wembley and score is what you dream about as a kid.

I’d love to be captain of Tottenham and hopefully England as well.

It sounds like a cliché, but without a strong group, you win nothing in football.

I try to play good football. I am not thinking about my market value when I enter the pitch.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country – pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school football, the division for the biggest schools in the state.

He firmly believed that football, like other sports, used blacks, exploited them and then spit them out once their talents as running backs or linebackers or wide receivers had been fully exhausted. For a few lucky ones, that moment might not come until they were established in the pros. For others, it might come at the end of college. For most, it would all end in high school.

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

I can’t put my mind to anything else. I’m not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it’s all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it’s football the whole time. I think I’m obsessed!

I began playing football on the streets.

I know enough football to know that’s funny!

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

I didn’t do any football stuff when I was a kid… Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That’s all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.

I’m not a Packers fan. I just like football. I do respect those guys. You respect great football. I’m a Cowboys fan, or I was a Cowboys fan. You just respect great football.

I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.

I think, as a quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.

Texas isn’t known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.

I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.

I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He’s my friend, I wish him the best.

My father always told me I like the ball more than I like playing soccer: since I was a young kid, I was always skilled with it, dribbling furniture around the house. That’s how I see football – fun and dynamic – and this goes beyond me; it’s a characteristic of Brazilian football.

Our autopilot was taking us into a very large crater, about the size of a big football stadium with steep slopes on the crater covered with very large rocks about the size of automobiles that was not the kind of place that I wanted to try to make the first landing.

Football is the beautiful game. It’s the game that gives you plenty of emotions, and what’s more, it teaches you to deal with those emotions.

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

Football is a sad game.

If football is an art, then I am an artist.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

There are a lot of athletes that I admire: LeBron, Nadal, Federer. There’s Cristiano in football.

This is much more than I dreamed about as a boy. I want to thank football in general for what it has given me.

I don’t know, I’ve liked football since I was a kid and I’ve always dreamt of becoming a professional footballer, I never thought of any other job.

Football has been my life since I was a kid. My style remains the same, I love every single minute I get on the pitch. I know I have a great responsibility, and that there are objectives to accomplish, but I try to have fun too, because that’s what i love to do.

At Barca, we trained every day with the ball.

I’m happy that a normal person can win the Ballon D’Or.

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn’t have a fear that I wouldn’t be good enough in England.

I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament

You don’t have to be a giant to play football, I’m happy with where I am. I am happy with where I am and I never cared what anyone else said, it only further motivated me.

People didn’t believe me when I told them I practiced harder than I played, but, it was true. That’s where my comfort zone was created by the time . The game came, all I had to do was react to what my body was already accustomed to doing.

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Messi is an incredible player but he can’t do everything alone. In football you need help and it can’t be done alone.

I have met him a few times. What can I say – Maradona is one of the best players in football history.

I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

Pressure helps me do things to the best of my ability. I like it. I do not feel pressure; quite the contrary, I always enjoy what I am doing, and that is playing football.

Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game—I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

When you lose, you get up, you make mistakes and you learn. And then you become a better player.

Without the help of my teammates I would be nothing. I wouldn’t win titles, honors, nothing.

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

It doesn’t matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.

I like to score goals, but I also like to have friends among the people I have played with.

There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is in win.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.

In football, as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precious.

I am more worried about being a good person than the best football player in the world

I’ve never lost a game, I just ran out of time.

I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training.

If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer, I would willingly play for nothing.

Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.

Talent Wins Games, But Teamwork And Intelligence Win Championship.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

I’m happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I’m not enjoying it, I will leave football.