#footballer

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

#anyone #brink #british #cannot #down

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

#being #brash #conscious #eight #ever

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#darts #fitter #footballers #lot #most

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

— Jamie Redknapp

#i #job #known #want

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #footballers #look

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

— Gordon Strachan

#bad #bad press #deserve #footballers #get

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

#compliments #constructive #constructive criticism #criticism #everyone

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

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

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

#beckham #beyond #desperate #footballer #his

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

— Andres Iniesta

#high #needs #rule #says #wide