In modern football all teams run and fight. Football needs to come back a little to be a game, if it is even coming back. If there is too much tactics, too much money, too much fight, maybe the people do not want to see it any more. Football is a game.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. And this is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere. Everyone can play it but those values are being lost. We have to bring them back.

People don’t realise how much football can do beyond on the pitch.

Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking the ball about, but is a species of fighting.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

You can be ruthless by playing football and one-touch football. Sometimes we get confused between desire and playing football. There is a fine line and sometimes we could pass the ball to each other a bit better. Football is a team effort and sometimes when you're not playing well together you need to go back to basics and play as a team.

Football is a simple game, twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Because you play football with your head, and your legs are there to help you. If you don't use your head, using your feet won't be sufficient. Why does a player have to chase the ball? Because he started running too late. You have to pay attention, use your brain and find the right position. If you get to the ball late, it means you chose the wrong position. Bergkamp was never late.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

Tackle football is a body-mind sport; flag football is a mind-body sport.

Football is a game with three results—win, draw or lose. We all pray to win but you cannot always win. There are games you play well and you still draw or you end up losing; those are the painful matches one will always remember.

See, while football is a team game, and any achievement within it is reliant on working as a group, no matter which way you flip it it’s still made up of individuals – success is just based on whether these individuals manage to form a cohesive unit.

Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.