What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win. . . All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.
On Platini's presidential watch. . . he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.
I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.
Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.
Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.
That lad must have been born offside.
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat
How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.